WASHINGTON, Oct 18 — Three white men in the US state of Georgia will go on trial Monday in the high-profile shooting death of a Black jogger that sparked a national outcry and helped fuel last summer’s social justice protests.
The three men contend that they mistook the jogger for a burglar active in the area and invoked a Georgia law allowing ordinary citizens to make arrests. The death of George Floyd two weeks later under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis reignited a national debate on racial justice and police violence against Black Americans, and Arbery became one of the symbols of the Black Lives Matter national protests that ensued.
Prosecutors will insist that the victim was unarmed and that nothing links him to a series of burglaries that took place in the neighbourhood where he was jogging. Since Arbery’s death, Georgia has passed a law that imposes additional penalties for crimes motivated by hatred toward a victim’s race, gender, sexual orientation and other characteristics.
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