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November 8, 2021

Opening Arguments Begin in Murder Trial of 3 White Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery
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In Georgia, the trial of three white men who chased down and shot dead
Ahmaud Arbery last year kicked off with opening statements Friday. The
jury was also shown police bodycam footage of the 25-year-old Black
jogger after he had been killed. Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski described
how the three defendants - Gregory Mc Michael, a former police officer,
his son Travis Mc Michael and William Bryan - chased Arbery for five
minutes in their pickup trucks until he was "trapped like a rat." This
is prosecutor Dunikoski delivering her opening statement.

Linda Dunikoski: "All three of these defendants did everything they did
based on assumptions - not on facts, not on evidence, on assumptions.
And they made decisions, in their driveways, based on those assumptions,
that took a young man's life."



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