Jury selection to begin in trial over killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Al Jazeera
Three white men face trial for chasing and fatally shooting Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in the US state of Georgia.
Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of three white men who are accused of chasing and fatally shooting 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in the US state of Georgia in February 2020.
On Monday, hundreds of prospective jurors were set to descend on the court in Glynn County for the arduous process, which is expected to take as long as two weeks.
Prosecutors and the defence will wrangle over selecting 12 jurors and four alternates from the group, who they believe have remained impartial towards the incident that captured local and national outrage and helped spark racial justice protests that swept the US last year.
