
Have we truly seen justice in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers?
CNN
Last Friday, the three men who chased and killed 25-year-old Black man Ahmaud Arbery in what can accurately be described as a modern-day lynching were sentenced to life in prison. And yet, Jemar Tisby writes, as with so many of these infuriating murders of Black people for the "crime" of merely being Black, urgent questions remain. Chief among them: Has justice truly been done?
The sentencing came nearly two years after father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael armed themselves and stalked Arbery through a neighborhood in southern Georgia along with a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan. In February 2020, the three men, all of whom are White, pursued Arbery in two vehicles, believing him to be a criminal. After cornering Arbery with their trucks, the younger McMichael killed him in a confrontation.

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