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February 17, 2022

Social Media Posts and Texts Show Trove of Racist Messages by Ahmaud Arbery's Murderers
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In Georgia, an FBI agent testified Wednesday that the three white men
convicted of chasing down and murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery
shared dozens of deeply racist social media posts and messages ahead of
the attack. Travis Mc Michael, who fired the three shots that killed
Arbery in February 2020, wrote about killing Black people and used
racial slurs repeatedly, saying he loved his job because "zero
n——rs work with me." Another of Arbery's killers, William
"Roddie" Bryan, used the N-word to refer to his daughter's Black
boyfriend. The men face federal hate crimes charges after a judge
rejected a plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of Arbery's
killers that would have allowed them to serve much of their life
sentences in a federal prison instead of a state prison.


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