Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the federal hate crimes trial for the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery comes a day before the two-year mark of his killing in Brunswick.
A jury in south Georgia found Travis and Gregory McMichael and William Bryan guilty of violating Arbery’s civil rights, targeting him because he was Black and using dangerous weapons to detain and ultimately kill him.
State Rep. Sandra Scott proposed and passed through the legislature a resolution making Feb. 23 Ahmaud Arbery Day in Georgia.
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