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Georgia: Murder of black jogger - again life imprisonment for shooters

2022-08-08T19:13:50.496Z


In February 2020, Travis M. shot and killed Black man Ahmaud Arbery. Now he was again sentenced to life imprisonment in the US federal court in Georgia.


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Life imprisonment for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery: Travis M.

Photo: STEPHEN B. MORTON / AFP

Two and a half years after the murder of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, one of the convicted men has again been sentenced to life imprisonment.

That was decided today by a judge in a US federal court in the state of Georgia, as US media reported unanimously.

Shooter Travis M. was found guilty of hate crimes in February.

A jury found that the three men violated Arbery's constitutional rights.

Disturbing cellphone video showed the crime

Arbery, 25, was shot and killed while jogging in February 2020 near the city of Brunswick, Georgia.

The investigation only really got going when the case later gained national and international attention through a disturbing cell phone video of the crime.

A little later, on May 25, 2020, African American George Floyd was killed in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Then there were months of protests against racism and police violence in the United States.

A grand jury had already found the three men guilty in a Georgia state trial.

In January they were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The shooter Travis M. was then found guilty of murder by the jury.

The two co-defendants, Travis M's father Gregory M. and neighbor William B., were convicted of aggravated assault and manslaughter, among other things.

All three men were also charged under federal law because of the racial background to the crime.

Defendants wrote racist text messages

During the current trial before the federal court, the prosecutor had shown that the accused had written racist text messages or made racist statements in the past.

The defense argued that Arbery was not being hunted for racial reasons, but because the men suspected him of a crime.

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Source: spiegel

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