More police testimony, evidence in trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. – More prosecution witnesses were called Monday greeting successful the proceedings of 3 men charged with execution successful the shooting decease of Ahmaud Arbery.

Former Glynn County Officer Ricky Minshew told the tribunal what helium saw erstwhile helium arrived astatine the scene.

“When I got out, arsenic I’m exiting, I deed my assemblage camera astatine the halfway of my chest. I got retired to spot what was going connected and I spot 2 males successful beforehand of me. I observed a Black antheral laying successful the roadway. He was covered successful blood,” Minshew said. “One was pacing, benignant of walking. The different doing the aforesaid thing, pacing and walking.”

Minshew said helium didn’t administer CPR because, “there was nary mode I could power to thing aesculapian and inactive beryllium capable to ticker my back.”

A Glynn County Police Department grounds technician besides graphic grounds and showed disturbing photos she took arsenic Arbery’s bloody assemblage laic connected a thoroughfare successful the Satilla Shores neighborhood.

The trial’s archetypal witnesser -- the archetypal Glynn County constabulary serviceman who responded to Arbery’s decease -- testified Friday that helium was adjacent capable to perceive the shots and arrived connected the country minutes aft the shooting. Officer William Duggan’s graphic assemblage camera footage of the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s life.

He testified astir his speech with 1 of the defendants, Travis McMichael, who claims helium changeable Arbery with a shotgun successful self-defense portion trying to marque a citizen’s arrest.

“(I) didn’t cognize who helium was astatine the time. I could spot helium was covered successful blood. There was humor each over. I retrieve astatine immoderate constituent asking if helium was OK,” Duggan said. “It was a speedy reply of uh, basically, “No, I’m not OK. I conscionable f****** killed somebody.”

Travis McMichael, his father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbour William “Roddie” Bryan are connected proceedings for execution and different charges successful Arbery’s death.

In her opening connection Friday, pb authoritative Linda Dunikoski said the men pursued Arbery aft assuming helium was a burglar but having nary impervious helium had stolen anything.

“They assumed that helium indispensable person committed immoderate transgression that day,” Dunikoski said. “He tried to tally astir their motortruck and get mode from these strangers, full strangers, who had already told him that they would termination him. And past they killed him.”

An lawyer for Travis McMichael, who changeable Arbery 3 times, enactment the shooting successful a overmuch antithetic light. Attorney Robert Rubin described Arbery to the overwhelmingly achromatic assemblage arsenic “an intruder” who had 4 times been recorded connected video “plundering around” a neighboring location nether construction.

Both McMichaels gave chase, hoping to detain Arbery until constabulary arrived, Rubin said, but Arbery refused to halt and lunged toward McMichael and his gun.

“It is simply a horrible, horrible video, and it’s tragic that Ahmaud Arbery mislaid his life,” Rubin said. “But astatine that point, Travis McMichael is acting successful self-defense. He did not privation to brushwood Ahmaud Arbery physically. He was lone trying to halt him for the police.”

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Arbery’s sidesplitting connected Feb . 23, 2020, was mostly ignored until the video leaked and deepened a nationalist reckoning implicit radical injustice.

That infamous compartment telephone video of the men chasing Arbery changeable by Bryan was besides shown successful court.

For Arbery’s mother, it was the archetypal clip she’d seen it each the mode through.

“I avoided the video for the past 18 months and I thought it was clip to get acquainted with what happened to Ahmaud successful the past fewer moments of his life,” Wanda Cooper Jones said.

There’s nary connection yet connected who volition attest Monday but we bash expect to perceive from respective much witnesses for the state.

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