Thread by @NaveedAJamali, “I can only imagine” a very sympathetic officer comforting Travis McMichael who [...]

“I can only imagine” a very sympathetic officer comforting Travis McMichael who had just chased and shot #AhmaudArbery, while the young black man lay dying on the road.

“Why would he be in cuffs?” Another officer says of McMicjael who had just shot #ahmaudarbery. Police sympathize with the literal blood on his hands, and generally treat it as a fender bender. It is grotesque. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/newly-released-video-shows-police-did-not-immediately-help-ahmaud-arbery-as-he-lay-dying/2020/12/17/82fba128-4094-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html

Body cam video in Ahmaud Arbery shooting raises familiar concerns about unequal police treatment

In the footage, critics see a victim treated as a suspect and culprits quickly treated as victims who acted in self-defense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/newly-released-video-shows-police-did-not-immediately-help-ahmaud-arbery-as-he-lay-dying/2020/12/17/82fba128-4094-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html

It wasn’t until natl outrage prompting the Georgia Bureau of Inv to take the case, that the men were arrested. The father was a former law enforcement officer but the DA found the murder “justified”, and that’s where it would’ve stayed if not 4 the video. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/was-pursuit-killing-ahmaud-arbery-perfectly-legal-it-s-not-n1205581

Pursuit and killing of Ahmaud Arbery were "perfectly legal," prosecutor said. It's not that simple.

A previous prosecutor declined to arrest a man and his son who pursued Arbery, calling the shooting "perfectly legal." Now, citizen's arrest and "stand your ground" laws are under scrutiny.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/was-pursuit-killing-ahmaud-arbery-perfectly-legal-it-s-not-n1205581

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