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March 28, 2024

White Supremacists Who Murdered Ahmaud Arbery Ask Court to Overturn Federal Hate Crime Convictions
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In Georgia, the three white men who chased down and killed Ahmaud Arbery
in 2020 asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to toss out their hate
crime convictions. The three convicted murderers say prosecutors did not
prove they targeted Arbery, whom they shot and killed while he was out
for a jog, because he was Black. During the trial of William Bryan and
father and son Greg and Travis Mc Michael, prosecutors shared dozens of
racist text messages and social media posts from the men in the months
and years before the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud's
father, Marcus Arbery, responded to the news Wednesday.

Marcus Arbery: "The evidence is just too strong against those men. I
don't care what them lawyers have said. Evidence was just too strong.
And me and my family, we just have to be strong and just sit back. We
know everything will be all right, because the evidence was just too
strong against those three men."



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