The three white Georgia men who chased and gunned down Ahmaud Arbery were each given life sentences Friday for what the dead jogger’s dad called a modern-day lynching “in broad daylight.”
Shooter Travis McMichael, 35, and his 66-year-old dad, ex-cop Gregory McMichael, were both told they would spend the rest of their lives behind bars without the possibility of parole. Even though they can never be released, both were also given an extra 20 years to run consecutively on a lesser aggravated assault charge.
Their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, also got a life sentence, but with the possibility of parole — which he can only apply for after serving 30 years, when he will be 82.
“Ahmaud Arbery was hunted down and shot,” Judge Timothy Walmsley told the three murderers, who showed no emotions at the sentences.
“He was killed because individuals here in this courtroom took the law into their own hands,” the judge said.
The judge dramatically enforced a minute’s silence to reflect “a fraction” of the five minutes of “terror” that Arbery must have felt as he tried to flee the men chasing him in pickups.
“A young man with dreams was gunned down in this community,” with a routine 2020 jog ending with him “running for his life,” the judge said.
The judge noted how the “chilling, truly disturbing” video of the deadly chase showed the McMichaels turning their backs on Arbery after being gunned down.
He also noted their callous statements after killing the unarmed jogger, including how ex-cop Greg wished he’d been the shooter and his son moaned about “his own well-being” while “the victim was laying there on the street.”
He said that Bryan — who filmed the horrific 2020 chase and murder — stood in “very different shoes” as the only one to show remorse. Still, Bryan’s attorney, Kevin Gough, had earlier said that also spend the rest of his life behind bars given that he will be in his 80s before he can apply for parole.
In prison they will be heros to the Arians and hated by the blood/crips.
Total morons either way!
Democrat Left is Loving it !!! Finally some White men to Convict !!!!
Amazing they were charged and sent to prison for life but the BLACK CAPITOL POLICE shot an unarmed WHITE FEMALE and never charged.
IS that justice? Is that not discriminatory and RACIAL injustice.
its georgia, what did you expect.