WASHINGTON, Jan 8 — Three white men convicted of murdering African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery after chasing him in their pickup trucks were sentenced to life in prison yesterday in a case that highlighted US tensions over racial justice.
The three were convicted in November of multiple counts of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment for chasing down 25-year-old Arbery on February 23, 2020 as he ran through their Satilla Shores neighbourhood near Brunswick, in the US state of Georgia. Weighing the verdict, Walmsley said he kept thinking of “the terror of the young man running through Satilla Shores.”“He was killed because individuals here in this courtroom took the law into their own hands.”Before the sentencing, members of Arbery’s family asked the court to give the three the harshest possible penalty.“This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity.... They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community.
Graphic cellphone video taken by Bryan showed the armed men following Arbery in their trucks for about five minutes, suspecting with no evidence that he might have been a burglar.
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