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Feds
charge 3
men with
hate
crime,
attempted
kidnapping
in
Ahmaud
Arbery
shooting
By
MARK
OSBORNE
and
MEREDITH
DELISO
BRUNSWICK,
GA - A
federal
grand
jury has
charged
three
men with
hate
crimes
and
attempted
kidnapping
in the
fatal
shooting
of
Ahmaud
Arbery
in
February
2020.
Travis
McMichael,
35;
Travis's
father,
Gregory
McMichael,
65; and
William
Bryan,
51, have
each
been
charged
with one
count of
interference
of
rights
and
attempted
kidnapping,
while
the
McMichaels
were
each
charged
with
using,
carrying
and
brandishing
a
firearm
in
relation
to a
crime of
violence.
MORE:
Timeline:
Events
leading
up to
the
arrests
of 3 men
in the
murder
of
Ahmaud
Arbery
All
three
men had
previously
been
arrested
months
after
the
shooting.
In June,
a Glynn
County
grand
jury
voted to
indict
all
three
for
felony
murder,
malice
murder,
aggravated
assault,
false
imprisonment
and
criminal
contempt
to
commit a
felony
in the
death of
Arbery.
They
each
have
pleaded
not
guilty
and have
been
ordered
to stand
trial
later
this
year.
PHOTO:
Booking
photos
of
Travis
McMichael,
his
father
Gregory
McMichael
and
William
'Roddie'
Bryan
Jr. who
have
been
charged
in the
shooting
death of
Ahmaud
Arbery.
(Glynn
County
Sheriff's
Office)
PHOTO:
Booking
photos
of
Travis
McMichael,
his
father
Gregory
McMichael
and
William
'Roddie'
Bryan
Jr. who
have
been
charged
in the
shooting
death of
Ahmaud
Arbery.
(Glynn
County
Sheriff's
Office)
Arbery,
25, a
Black
man, was
killed
while
jogging
in the
neighborhood
of
Satilla
Shores
in
Brunswick,
Georgia,
on Feb.
23,
2020.
Gregory
McMichael,
a
retired
investigator
with the
Brunswick
District
Attorney's
Office
who
previously
served
as a
Glynn
County
police
officer,
saw
Arbery
and
assumed
he was
the
person
who
committed
"several
break-ins"
in their
neighborhood,
according
to a
police
report.
He and
his son
grabbed
their
guns --
a .357
magnum
and
shotgun,
respectively
-- and
jumped
into a
white
pick-up
truck,
authorities
said.
MORE:
Ahmaud
Arbery's
mother
files
federal
lawsuit
against
3 men
accused
of
killing
son
Bryan
recorded
the
chase on
his
cellphone,
which
captured
Arbery
getting
ambushed
by the
McMichaels.
Arbery
was seen
in the
viral
video
struggling
with
Travis
McMichael
before
being
fatally
shot.
The
new
federal
indictment
alleges
that the
three
men
intimidated
and
threatened
Arbery
and
interfered
with his
right to
use a
public
street
"because
of
Arbery's
race and
color."
It also
alleges
that all
three
chased
Arbery
"in an
attempt
to
restrain
[him],
restrict
his free
movement,
corral
and
detain
him
against
his
will,
and
prevent
his
escape."
PHOTO:
In this
May 29,
2020,
file
photo, a
protestor
holds up
a photo
of
Ahmaud
Arbery
at a
rally in
Washington.
(Michael
S.
Williamson/The
Washington
Post via
Getty
Images,
FILE)
PHOTO:
In this
May 29,
2020,
file
photo, a
protestor
holds up
a photo
of
Ahmaud
Arbery
at a
rally in
Washington.
(Michael
S.
Williamson/The
Washington
Post via
Getty
Images,
FILE)
On
the
one-year
anniversary
of his
death,
Arbery's
mother
filed a
wrongful
death
lawsuit
in the
U.S.
District
Court
for the
Southern
District
of
Georgia,
alleging
that the
McMichaels
and
Bryan
were
acting
as
surrogate
police
when he
was
killed.
Ben
Crump,
one of
the
attorneys
representing
Arbery's
family,
said the
indictment
was
"another
step in
the
right
direction."
"This is
an
important
milestone
in
America's
uphill
march
toward
racial
justice,
and we
applaud
the
Justice
Department
for
treating
this
heinous
act for
what it
is -- a
purely
evil,
racially
motivated
hate
crime,"
Crump
said in
a
statement.
MORE:
New body
camera
video
shows
events
immediately
following
Ahmaud
Arbery
shooting
Robert
Rubin,
an
attorney
for
Travis
McMichael,
said
they
were
"deeply
disappointed
that the
Justice
Department
bought
the
false
narrative
that the
media
and
state
prosecutors
have
promulgated."
"There
is
absolutely
nothing
in the
indictment
that
identifies
how this
is a
federal
hate
crime
and it
ignores
without
apology
that
Georgia
law
allows a
citizen
to
detain a
person
who was
committing
burglaries
until
police
arrive,"
Rubin
said in
a
statement.
ABC
News'
Sabina
Ghebremedhin,
Bill
Hutchinson
and Kate
Hodgson
contributed
to this
report.
Federal
grand
jury
charges
3 men
with
hate
crime,
attempted
kidnapping
in
Ahmaud
Arbery
shooting
originally
appeared
on
abcnews.go.com
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