Ahmaud Arbery

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot and killed while confrontation with three white men in a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia. Police and prosecutors were trying to cover up Ahmaud’s murder, as one of the accused killers was both a former police officer and investigator for the local district attorney’s office.

In February 2020, Arbury was out for a jog. Former police officer Gregory McMichael, his son Travis and William Bryan drove past him in a car. According to them, they were suspecting Arbury of burglary. They said they wanted to talk to him and to conduct a civil arrest. Then, according to them, Arbury assaulted Travis, who shot him in self-defense. However, in November 2021, Travis said Arbury neither threaten him with a weapon nor yelled at him.

In February 2021, Arbury’s mother filed a $1 million federal lawsuit against Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan. The lawsuit alleges that the murder was racially motivated and that prosecutors tried to cover it up as one of the attackers was a former police officer. All three men were charged only two months after Arbury’s murder when state officials began talking about the case.

During a trial in November 2021 Arbury’s mother said that an officer who arrived at the scene did not render aid to her son and went to secure the crime scene.