Judge Walmsley took a minute-long moment of silence to demonstrate 'only a fraction of the time' that Ahmaud Arbery was running from the three men who were chasing him for five minutes.
Ahmaud Arbery's sister Jasmine Arbery wipes away a tear while listening to her mother's impact statement during the sentencing of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William"Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, Jan. 7, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. The three were found guilty in the February 2020 slaying of Ahmaud Arbery."The man who killed my son has been sitting in this courtroom, every single day, next to his father," said Marcus.
She added:"These are the qualities that made these men assume that Amaud was a dangerous criminal and chase him with guns. To me, those qualities reflect a young man full of life and energy who look like me and the people I love."Travis McMichael listens to attorneys question a pool of prospective jurors during jury selection for the trial of he and his father Greg McMichael and William"Roddie" Bryan, at the Glynn County Courthouse, Oct. 25, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.
Greg McMichael, left, listens to jury selection for the trial of him and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William"Roddie" Bryan, at the Glynn County Courthouse, Oct. 25, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Arbery's family, spoke in a press conference before the sentencing, calling the guilty verdict"an awakening in America."
"What we pray for is that this is a new, precedent in America that harkens back to the words written in 1776 when we say we hold these truths, that all men are created equally," Crump said."We pray that we see that same spirit in a sentence of these killers, this lynch mob. We want to make sure that they don't get a slap on the wrist."
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