WASHINGTON - A Georgia man and his father convicted of federal hate crimes for the murder of a Black man who was shot dead while jogging were sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
The McMichaels, who are white, chased Arbery in a pickup truck on 23 February 2020 as he jogged through their neighborhood near the town of Brunswick, Georgia. The racially-charged case added fuel to nationwide protests over police killings of African Americans sparked initially by the murder in May 2020 of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
‘Jogger’.
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