The sentences imposed by a judge Friday in Glynn County Superior Court concluded the state of Georgia's criminal case in the slaying of 25-year-old Arbery, in which a jury returned guilty verdicts the day before Thanksgiving.
The Feb. 23, 2020, killing just outside the port city of Brunswick became part of a greater national reckoning on racial injustice when the video leaked online two months later. At a hearing Friday, Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced both McMichaels to life in prison with no chance of parole. The judge sentenced Bryan to life with a possibility for parole once he's served 30 years.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Arbery's mother, said it's important for federal case to expose racist motives behind the killing because "there is an issue of race taking place in this country. It has come front and center and it needs to be discussed." "Today your son has made history, because we have people who are being held accountable for lynching a Black man in America," Benjamin Crump, a civil attorney for Arbery's family, told the slain man's parents after the sentencing hearing.
stop stealing and being a thug and don't grab peoples guns this was a good thing
The word “racist” has been completely corrupted. When that word is used it’s impossible to know if it is in reference to *actual racism or the new, expanded, hyper-sensitive version of the word. The woke won’t be satisfied until there are full on race wars. Stop selling racism!
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