Ahmaud Arbery murder case
Black jogger shot: three men sentenced to life in prison
Judge Timothy Walmsley – here at the trial in November 2020 – has now announced the sentence of the three convicts
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Two years ago three men mistook the black jogger Ahmaud Arbery for a burglar and shot him. For this they had been found guilty of murder. Now the sentence has been determined.
Less than two years after the fatal shooting of the black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in the US state of Georgia, the three perpetrators have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Judge Timothy Walmsley announced the sentence on Friday in the city of Brunswick against the white men convicted of the murder in November. The judge ruled out early release for two of the men.
Ahmaud Arbery’s death sparked protests
They had followed Arbery jogging in a suburb of Brunswick on February 23, 2020 in two cars because they thought he was a burglar. In a scuffle that followed, Travis McMichael, who was armed with a rifle, shot and killed the 25-year-old African American. The case, captured on a cell phone video, had caused outrage across the country. Arbery became – along with other black people who were killed, such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor – a symbol of the Black Lives Matter protests against racism in the United States.