Three white men face sentencing by a judge Friday roughly six weeks after being convicted of murder for chasing a running Ahmaud Arbery in pickup trucks, cutting off the unarmed Black man’s escape and fatally blasting him with a shotgun.
“The day has finally come that we will get justice,” Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, told reporters outside the courthouse before the hearing. “The day that my family and I have prayed for has finally come.” Either choice amounts to a stiff sentence. Even if the judge allows a possibility of parole, the McMichaels and Bryan will have to serve at least 30 years in prison first.
The killing went largely unnoticed until two months later, when the graphic video was leaked online and touched off a national outcry. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case from local police and soon arrested all three men. At the time of his death, Arbery had enrolled at a technical college and was preparing to study to become an electrician like his uncles.
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