Ahmaud Arbery jury foreman reveals the moments in the hate crimes trial that made him cry: "It was a lot to take in"

The Black man who served as foreman of the jury that convicted three White men of federal hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery said he believes the guilty verdicts show that while acts of racial violence still occur in the U.S., "we're moving in the right direction." Marcus Ransom also said there were three moments during the trial that moved him to tears.

"Wrong is wrong and right is right," Ransom told The New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. "No matter what it is, you've got to have consequences. No one is above laws."

Ransom, a 35-year-old social worker, was the only Black man on the jury that spent a week in a Brunswick, Georgia, courtroom hearing the hate crimes case in U.S. District Court. Jurors deliberated less than four hours before finding each of the defendants guilty on all counts February 22.