Mr Arbery's death gained national notoriety last week with the release of a 28-second cell phone video that captured the shooting.
As Arbery tries to get around the vehicle, he is confronted by a second man holding a shotgun. An altercation between the two ensues and the firing of three shots can be heard. According to the February police report, Gregory McMichael told officers he thought Mr Arbery was a suspect in a series of area burglaries and that he had seen the young black man"hauling ass" down the street.Gregory McMichael said he went inside his home and got his .357 Magnum while his son grabbed a shotgun.
He was an armed robber who attacked an armed man making a citizen's arrest. He's a violent criminal and the white guys are hero's protecting their community. Case closed
While he definitely did not need to be shot I though the whole ‘jogger’ thing had been pretty well debunked by the video footage of the last couple of days showing him walking into a property under construction, then running off when the police were called.
Rightly so. Disgusting tragedy, no matter how it is viewed.