Ahmaud Arbery: Perpetrators found guilty of hate crimes
The court deemed that the men were motivated by racism.
Three white men convicted of killing a black man in the US state of Georgia have been found guilty of federal hate crimes. Jurors found the defendants targeted Ahmaud Arbery because of his race.
In January, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25 year-old black man as he ran through their south Georgia neighbourhood in February 2020. Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced without the possibility of parole.
Tuesday's verdict was over a separate set of charges filed by the US justice department.
Newsday spoke earlier with Adam Klasfeld, Managing Editor at Law Crime News to understand more about the case and the verdict.
(Photo: Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones reacts as Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentences Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbour, William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. in the Glynn County Courthouse, on January 7, 2022 in Brunswick, Georgia. Credit: Stephen B. Morton-Pool/Getty Images)
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