Two men follow another man running in their neighbor with guns then shoot him after an altercation.
According to a police report, the man, Gregory McMichael, 64, called out to his son, Travis McMichael, 34. They grabbed their weapons, a .357 magnum revolver and a shotgun, jumped into a truck and began following Mr. Arbery.
“Stop, stop,” they shouted at Mr. Arbery, “we want to talk to you.”
Moments later, after a struggle over the shotgun, Mr. Arbery was killed, shot at least twice.
Moments later, after a struggle over the shotgun, Mr. Arbery was killed, shot at least twice.
This changes my initial reaction.
Without hearing all the evidence and all the witnesses and such . . . hard to make a call.
Where they correct in chasing after him WITH guns? No
During a strugle could it be considered justified to shoot the person you where chasing? Yes. Was it in this case? See what I put above.
Mr. Barnhill said this video, which has not been made public, shows Mr. Arbery attacking Travis McMichael after he and his father pulled up to him in their truck.
The video shows Mr. Arbery trying to grab the shotgun from Travis McMichael’s hands, Mr. Barnhill wrote. And that, he argued, amounts to self-defense under Georgia law. Travis McMichael, Mr. Barnhill concluded, “was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.”
And there calls in the question of murder of justified. They pull up, dead man tries to grab the gun from one of the idiots.
Not nearly enough details in that article to make any decision.
It’s also at least questionably written with a clear anti gun/racial bias.
“The grabbed their guns”. Where is the evidence of that? Not uncommon for people to carry a handgun or have a shotgun in their truck especially in rural areas.
What instigated the physical altercation? Did they chase this guy down and tackle him intiating a scuffle or did they simply engage him to see who he was and why he was running through the neighborhood? If he took that as some sort of slight and started a fight over it he was probably justifiably killed because when you attack someone who’s carrying lawfully that is an aggravated assault the second you attempt to disarm them.
How about just letting the investigation play out rather than jumping to conclusions?
Ahmaud Arbery was running through the neighborhood while wearing a bandana. Gregory McMichael is a retired investigator and he was chose to follow Arbery in order to determine if a citizens arrest was warranted.
It appears they were just trying to see why a stranger was running through the neighborhood and it turned ugly. Not enough evidence here to say for sure either way.
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