Ahmuad Arbery’s mother and civil rights leaders react after guilty verdict for his killers

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Ahmuad Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, addressed crowds of supporters outside the Georgia court that convicted her son’s killers of murder.

‘I never saw this day, back in 2020. I never thought this day would come,’ she said. ‘But God is good and I just want to tell everybody thank you. Thank you for those who marched, for those who prayed – most of all the ones who prayed. Thank you.’

Three white men were convicted of murdering Arbery, a black man, as he ran in their neighborhood. The jury rejected a self defense claim in a trial that once again probed America’s divisive issues of race and guns.

Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton also addressed the crowd, saying: ‘Let the word go forth all over the world that a jury of 11 whites and one Black in the deep south stood up in the courtroom and said that Black lives do matter.’

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In This Story: Ahmaud Arbery

On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot after being pursued and confronted by Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael, who were armed and driving a pickup truck.

The shooting happened on a neighborhood street in Satilla Shores, a community near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, USA and was recorded on video by a neighbor of the McMichaels, who was following Arbery in another vehicle.

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Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.

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