US Justice Department weighing up hate crime charges after shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery

The US Justice Department is weighing whether to file hate crime charges against the white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man who was gunned down while jogging in the small coastal town of Brunswick, Georgia, department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said on Monday.

"We are assessing all of the evidence to determine whether federal hate crimes charges are appropriate."Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on February 23 as he ran on a sunny day in a residential neighbourhood in the town of Brunswick, Georgia.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.

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US state of Georgia asks justice department to probe killing of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud ArberyThe Georgia state attorney general has asked the US Department of Justice to investigate the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black jogger whose death sparked outrage across the country. Rightly so. Disgusting tragedy, no matter how it is viewed. 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. 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
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