Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Perras told the jury the defendants were"vigilantes."
"When you peel away the defendants' excuses and you follow the evidence, it wasn’t about trespassing and it wasn't about neighborhood crime. It was about race," Perras said."Racial assumptions, racial resentment and racial anger." Copeland noted that the 17 racially charged text messages and Facebook posts she conceded Travis McMichael made between 2013 and 2020 had nothing to do with the Arbery killing. She said the evidence shows that Travis McMichael never made racial statements to Arbery or the police on the day of the fatal shooting.
Copeland said prosecutors also did not prove the grounds for the kidnapping charge, arguing Travis McMichael gave Arbery the opportunity to run away only to have Arbery charge toward him and engage in a struggle over McMichael's pump-action shotgun.She asked the jury to find Travis McMichael not guilty of all the charges.Gregory McMichael's attorney, A.J.
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