Gregory & Travis McMichael have been arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

[Gothmog]

Source: Press Release

Glynn County, GA (May 7, 2020) – On May 7th, 2020, the GBI arrested Gregory McMichael, age 64, and Travis McMichael, age 34, for the death of Ahmaud Arbery. They were both charged with murder and aggravated assault. The McMichaels were taken into custody and will be booked into the Glynn County Jail.

On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Brunswick, GA when both Gregory and Travis McMichael confronted Arbery with two firearms. During the encounter, Travis McMichael shot and killed Arbery.

This case is being investigated in partnership with District Attorney Tom Durden.

On May 5th, 2020, District Attorney Tom Durden formally requested the GBI investigate the death of Ahmaud Arbery. The Kingsland Office initiated an investigation on May 6th, 2020.

On April 29th, 2020, the Glynn County Police Department (GCPD) requested that the GBI investigate allegations of threats against GCPD and individuals involved in the active investigation.

On the morning of May 5th, 2020, GCPD requested the GBI investigate the public release of video related to Arbery’s death.
These investigations are all active and ongoing. If anyone has information related to these cases, please contact the GBI at 1-800-597-TIPS (8477).

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[jpak]

1. Good

Racist pigs

[underpants]

2. Good.

Money will role in for their defense.

[Jim__]

3. I guess shining a light on the case had an effect. Good news!

[LisaL]

7. Sure did. Somebody released that video, presumably hoping to achieve just that.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. 'bout fucking time!

It was a goddamned travesty that they weren't arrested on day one.

[KT2000]

5. About time

racist gun humpers - rot in prison.

[Gothmog]

6. Father and son charged with murder of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

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Two men have been arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault for the February shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested on Thursday and will be booked into the Glynn County Jail.
Cellphone video showing the moment has prompted national outrage since surfacing online this week, but his mother said she can't bring herself to watch it.

"I don't think I'll ever be in a mental state where I can actually watch the video. I had others that watched it that shared what they saw and that just was enough," Wanda Cooper-Jones told ABC News in an interview that aired Thursday on "Good Morning America."

In the 28-second video, Arbery, who is black, can be seen jogging around a neighborhood just outside the port city of Brunswick on a sunny afternoon in late February. The footage ends with two loud gunshots.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Mr. Arbery was murdered in cold blood by these two twisted trumpers.

He was jogging. Wearing jogging clothers. UNARMED.

If they thought he was such a threat, why not just call the local PD ?

They murdered him.

Well, wake up racists. Black people are NOT disposable. They are NOT target practice.

I HATE racists. ALL racists. This man's life was not yours for taking.

I hope this father and son duo get the death penalty. Mr. Arbery deserves nothing less.

[montanacowboy]

9. How Long before the Klan

gets bail for them

[niyad]

10. About damned time. Interesting that gcpd wants GBI to investigate who leaked the video.

Guess they did not like having the public see the truth that they were sitting on?

[Lonestarblue]

11. Vigilantes need to learn that murder will reap punishment.

Some white people today feel entitled to murder anyone who crosses them, like the Dollar Store clerk who denied entry because someone was not wearing a face mask. Throw the book at these two. They’re scum of the earth.

[Jedi Guy]

23. The people involved in the shooting of that security guard were African-American. N/T

[Jake Stern]

12. This is a good start but get back to me when there is an actual conviction.

Really hope this isn't another Zimmerman case where folks celebrated when he was charged and arrested only to watch him be acquitted.

[Marrah_Goodman]

13. Good, now let's see if they get convicted

[Lulu KC]

15. Yup n/t

[Lulu KC]

14. It's a start n/t

[marble falls]

16. About time. They must be prominent to be given this much time.

[spike jones]

17. No, Gregory McMichael is a former cop.

That is all you need to know to determine the out come of the trial.

[marble falls]

20. I knew there was some reason so many ADAs were recusing themselves.

[mikewv]

18. Ok... I hope the are convicted. nm

[Cha]

19. KR!

[RussBLib]

21. Fortunately (I think) it's getting harder to commit murder

in public. There are cameras everywhere. It used to be far too easy.

[yankee87]

22. Playing out a Movie?

I wonder if these racists were playing out the movie Hunt and the older one with Ice=T, Surviving the Game. I mean the red neck in the truck behind was filming it for later viewing and sharing.

[riversedge]

24. These two men grabbed their guns---and then chased him down. They took the law into their own hands

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wrong on all counts. first step was arresting them. now to convict them.


.........Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, who are both white, told police they grabbed their guns and hopped in their truck to pursue Arbery after seeing him running in their neighborhood, because they believed he was responsible for several recent burglaries. The father claimed his son got out of the truck holding a shotgun and was attacked by Arbery, according to a police report obtained by ABC News.

[Gothmog]

25. Biden slams Arbery shooting as 'grave injustice,' demands investigation

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Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, on Thursday addressed the brutal attack of black man in Georgia, who was chased and gunned down by two white men, saying the incident amounted to a lynching “before our very eyes” and demanding a “transparent investigation.”

Biden, in his first public comments about the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, called the attack a “grave injustice that claimed a life” and “that resonates in so many ways across threads of our history into the present day.”

No arrests have been made in Arbery’s shooting.

“By now many of us have seen that harrowing footage of Ahmaud Arbery out on a jog on a beautiful day in February in Florida, in Georgia, shot down in cold blood, essentially lynched before our very eyes, 2020 style,” Biden said during a virtual roundtable in Jacksonville, Fla., with local African-American lawmakers.

“This family and the country deserves justice and they deserve it now. They deserve a transparent investigation of this brutal murder. But our nation deserves it as well. We need to reckon with this, this goes on. These vicious acts call to mind the darkest chapters of our history,” Biden said.

[BeyondGeography]

26. Racist thugs

Squirm, bastards.

[Gothmog]

27. JUST IN: Mugshots released for Gregory and Travis McMichaels.

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[erpowers]

28. Glad

I am glad they have been arrested. That is what should have happened.

[raccoon]

29. It's about time these two murderers were in jail. Nt