assembled outside the Glynn County Courthouse erupted. Strangers embraced, tears flowed and people prayed.The sheath of impending unrest that hovered over this small coastal town lifted like cloud cover. The specter of an uprising was gone; the hope that justice for Black people can be received was restored — if only momentarily.
The three white men tracked Arbery, who was Black, in a pickup truck and gunned him down in the street on February 23, 2020. “I’m more relieved than happy,” Michael Irvin, a teacher from the Orlando, Florida, area told NBC News outside the courthouse. He said he drove more than three hours to Brunswick in anticipation of a verdict Wednesday. “I don’t want to be a spoilsport, but what if that video had not come out several months later? A young Black man would have been taken from his family and community with no one held responsible. That part, I can’t ignore. So, I’m happy justice was served.
The atmosphere outside the courthouse was festive after the verdict, with chants of “Justice for Ahmaud” and “Say his name ... Ahmaud Arbery,” a sustained calling. When Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, and father, Marcus Arbery, exited the courtroom and walked toward the steps of the courthouse, the crowd erupted.
Whether innocent or guilty it must be based on facts as weighed by a court of law and not by the liberal and biased media.
I grew upin GA and am not surprised by the verdict, even from an almost all-white jury--we live with many Black neighbors, and they run asfreely as we would.... murder felonymurder guiltyguiltyguilty
Racism is thinking that a black jogger has to “follow orders” from a white stranger with a gun.
Mostly all of Black American was held in anxious suspense for its future safety and humanity for several hours in this country. The implications were society changing and that shouldn't have been a reality in 2021 America.
He has a valid point. The United States purports itself to be a built on a foundation of equality for all, yet that notion seems to elude certain factions of the nation based on many things — especially race. Much work needs to be done in this realm.
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