Father and son convicted in Ahmaud Arbery killing get life in prison for federal hate crime charges
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Travis McMichael, the gunman convicted of chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in 2020, and his father, who initiated it, were sentenced to life in prison.
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U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood scheduled back-to-back hearings to individually sentence each of the defendants. The third defendant, 52-year-old William "Roddie" Bryan, was sentenced later on Monday to 35 years in prison for recording cellphone video of the slaying.
Arbery's killing on Feb. 23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Those two cases also resulted in the Justice Department bringing federal charges.