WASHINGTON - Three white men in the US state of Georgia will go on trial Monday in the high-profile shooting death of a Black jogger that sparked a national outcry and helped fuel last summer's social justice protests.
Local prosecutors, for whom Gregory McMichael, a retired police officer, had worked for a long time, did not make any arrests in the case for nearly three months. "A Black man should be able to jog without fearing for his life," President Joe Biden tweeted on the anniversary of Arbery's death.Jury selection is expected to last several days, given the intense media scrutiny of the case. The defendants are then expected to plead self-defence, arguing that Arbery was resisting lawful arrest.
"If these killers get off without consequence, that sends the message that lynching Black men in 2021 carries no penalty."
Pathetic race-baiting headline.