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On February 23rd, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old African American man, was gunned down while jogging through his Brunswick, Georgia neighborhood, just steps from his home. Two armed white men, Gregory McMichael, a former officer with the Glynn County Police Department, and his son, Travis McMichael, told police they followed Arbery in their pickup truck, believing he was responsible for a series of burglaries in the neighborhood. Gregory claimed Ahmaud attacked his son, who then fired his weapon in self-defense, killing Arbery. There were no arrests at the scene and no charges were filed by prosecutors. Two months later, a video of the killing surfaced. The video, taken by William Roddy Bryan, a neighbor of the McMichaels who was in his vehicle also pursuing Arbery, contradicted the McMichaels account of what happened and led to a public outcry calling for justice for Ahmaud. On Thursday, May 7th, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged the McMichaels’ with murder and aggravated assault. On today’s La