BRUNSWICK , Jan 31 — US prosecutors have reached plea agreements with two of the three white men facing federal hate-crime charges for the 2020 murder of Black man Ahmaud Arbery, according to court records.
“The DOJ has gone behind my back to offer the men who murdered my son a deal to make their time in prison easier to serve,” Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said in statement provided by Merritt. “I have been completely betrayed by the DOJ lawyers,” she said, referring to the US Department of Justice.
On Sunday, lawyers for the US government filed notices asking a district judge to accept pleas for the McMichaels. No details were given but the filings said the deal would “dispose” of the pending charges against the McMichaels if accepted.