Judge Rips Lawyer in Ahmaud Arbery Case for Freaking Out About Black Pastors

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-rebukes-ahmaud-arbery-suspect-lawyer-kevin-gough-after-mistrial-request?ref=home


Judge Rips Lawyer in Ahmaud Arbery Case for Freaking Out About Black Pastors

‘Reprehensible’
Pilar Melendez
National Reporter
Updated Nov. 15, 2021 1:46PM ET /
Published Nov. 15, 2021 1:30PM ET

The Georgia judge presiding over the trial for the three alleged murderers of Ahmaud Arbery denied a mistral request on Monday—before slamming a defense attorney for his comments about Black pastors in the courtroom. “Your words have an impact on a lot of what is going on,” Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley told Kevin Robert Gough, an attorney representing suspect William Bryan, who filmed the fatal chase of the 25-year-old Black man last year.

“Emotions are neither unreasonable or unexpected in a murder case,” the judge added, calling Gough’s comments “reprehensible.”

The rebuke came as Walmsley was denying Gough’s motion for a mistrial, apparently spurred by Rev. Jesse Jackson entering the courtroom on Monday with Arbery’s family. Last week, Gough came under fire for attempting to bar “any more Black pastors coming” into the courtroom under the pretense that their presence would influence the jury. “We have all these community leaders fearful they are going to burn the whole city down,” Gough added on Monday after seeing Jackson in the courtroom comforting Arbery’s mother, who began to cry during testimony.

[Goonch]

1. 🖖‍;-{)

[amb123]

2. If the trial were held in the 1960s

Kevin Gough would be referring to Rev. Jackson & Rev. Sharpton as "Outside Agitators."

[alphafemale]

3. Don't trust your soul to no _____ _____ _____

What was that again now?

Judge seems fine, though.

[calimary]

4. I find myself wondering how many years...

No. How many decades …

No. How many generations …

No … Centuries, maybe?

… before America finally grows up and gets beyond this shit?

Are we doomed to failure - permanently?

Are the problems that profound?

Is the damage that deep?

[Orrex]

7. The nation will fall and be dissolved long before that happens

Sorry to say, but the absolute love of bigotry and the vile delusion of white supremacy are essential to the identity of a huge percentage of our fine nation, far more fundamental than religion, and as a group they will never willingly turn from it.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Down here in the South, the Civil War is relitigated every day

Generational racism isn't going anywhere, even if the law opposes it.

[ancianita]

6. Yep. Enough Southerners feed their children the same haterade they drank as a youth, for us to

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still its monuments, replacement protests, and political effects. Growing up in Florida, going to school in the panhandle, and living for a bit in Lester Maddox's GA, I saw that.

And not just in the South, either; too many everywhere drink it with their kids, while the grandchildren get it served up during family and neighborhood and public gatherings. The only way to stop its effect is for high school kids to move out as early as possible, for at least their college years and longer.

EDIT for clarity: "Every white Southerner"

[GB_RN]

8. Whoa There!

My family is from the south. I grew up here. Neither I, nor my parents are racist, nor am I raising my son as a racist. In fact, we all hate the Nazi-wannabe asshats.

Don’t paint us all with the same broad brush. Not cool.

[whathehell]

10. Thanks for challenging the "broad brush" approach

The pessimism around here can get very thick.

[GB_RN]

15. No Worries.

[whathehell]

33. -----

[ancianita]

17. My full apologies. "Every" was stupid of me. I was in the heat of agreement. But I'm wrong. I

grew up in the South and I should know better than to generalize like this.

Not cool. You're right. Absolutely significant numbers of Southerners do not at all pass on racism, and whatever racism is taught is certainly not limited to whites.

I'm sorry.

[GB_RN]

27. All Good...

No hurt feelings, no bruised egos! 😁

[SarcasticSatyr]

9. "some" .. not "every"

There are many good people in the south who do not subscribe to racist beliefs ..

[ancianita]

18. Yes. I'll leave it up for now just to remind myself not to post dumb crap like that again.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Tarring everyone in a group like you did is pre-judging: prejudice and bigotry. Pls self-delete. nt

[ancianita]

19. Yes; stupid, prejudiced and bigoted. I will self delete but leave it up for now and take my licks.

I don't know why I was so intensely irrational about the South, having grown up here and gone to FSU, a fine school.

Thank you for jumping on me about this. I have no excuse.

[Texaswitchy]

13. No not all.

My Grandkids are biracial.

There are racist up north, and all over the country.

[ancianita]

20. Nope, not at all.

My grandchild is biracial, too.

[Texaswitchy]

29. Very special kids.

[TomSlick]

14. Hold on there cousin. Every white southerner?

Are you certain that my life-long Democrat parents fed me "haterade?" Are you sure that I raised my child to be a racist?

Be careful of that broad brush. You never know where stuff will splash.

[ancianita]

22. I hear you. No, not "every." That was stupid of me.

I deserve all the backlash I carelessly asked for.

[TomSlick]

24. Everyone says stupid stuff but not everyone owns up to it.

Good for you.

[ancianita]

25. I shouldn't have said such stupid stuff to begin with. But thanks for the kind words.

[TomSlick]

26. MOST southerners are the forgiving sort.

[nolabear]

16. What a crappy take on us Southerners.

There are many, many fine people in the South. Even white ones ( ) I moved away from my native area years ago but then and now I know a plethora of educators, artists, musicians, low level politicians and lawyers, medical personnel, and blue collar folks who live with and love and are in families with people of many different cultures and backgrounds. Yes, there are a whole lot of people who are bigots and fools and rubes. But you would do well to appreciate the good people who are in the trenches and not just throwing stones from some false self righteous hill.

[ancianita]

23. It truly is. I'm very sorry, nolabear. I know how it came up but that's no excuse whatsoever.

I know better and got lost in anger. I've actually given long, positive defense of the South's culture and contributions -- food, music, manners, inventions, writers, artists, etc. -- and should not have burst out like that today.

[nolabear]

30. Thank you! That was gracious and kind.

I’m sure you know my anger was cumulative, as so much is. It’s easy these days to be on edge. Let’s not waste our time on that.

[ancianita]

32. ...

[lunatica]

28. Like they say in the south

Bless your heart.

My mother was a southerner as was her entire family.

[Mr. Ected]

31. Good for her. Good for anyone born in the South not afflicted by generational racism

Good for anyone born into it that has blossomed out of it.

Doesn't alter the truth of its existence.

[marble falls]

11. He's trying to pull a mistrial. They think this jury will convict.

[cadoman]

21. I do appreciate what they're trying to do but I hope it doesn't set a precedent..

I think Sharpton and Jackson being there help keep everyone's behavior better for the moment, but I'd hate for cases to devolve into which side could draw the better celebrity.