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As facts are released in the killing of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, we ask that you continue to protest peacefully.
On Thursday, father, Gregory McMichael, 64, and son, Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested at their home in Brunswick, Georgia, in connection with the death of Arbery, by heavily-armed officers with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an article [2] claiming that the father, a former investigator inside the Brunswick District Attorney’s office had investigated Arbery years ago in a non-related matter.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has recused himself from the case, and Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill released a statement that his son and Gregory (father) ‘both helped with the previous prosecution of (Ahmaud) Arbery.’
[AJC [2]] McMichael, a former Glynn County cop, told Glynn police he recognized Arbery, 25, from surveillance video that captured a recent burglary in his mostly white neighborhood. He said he planned to make a citizen’s arrest.
When he was in high school, Arbery was sentenced to five years probation as a first offender on charges of carrying a weapon on campus and several counts of obstructing a law enforcement officer. He was convicted of probation violation in 2018 after he was charged with shoplifting, court documents show.
McMichael, who retired from the DA’s office in April 2019, made no mention of his work on that investigation to police, though it’s unknown whether he remembered it at the time.
Barnhill wrote that he learned about his son and McMichael’s ties to Arbery “three or four weeks” earlier.
He didn’t say why he waited so long to recuse himself but claimed “a local ‘rabble rouser’ has taken up this cause and begun publishing wild and factually incorrect and legally wrong accusations on Facebook and other social media formats calling for marches and physical affronts be made against the McMichaels at their homes, and my son’s home in Brunswick etc.”
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Arbery was previously sentenced to five years probation as a first offender on charges of carrying a weapon on campus and several counts of obstructing a law enforcement officer.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on May 8, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [4] and is used by permission.
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