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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery:  The Sentencing 
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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery:  The Sentencing 

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw January 7, 2022

In the Superior Court of Glynn County, Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery took the podium to tell her story of what life has been like for her family without her son.  Embarking on the unimaginable act of reading a victim impact statement, Cooper-Jones read a message to her son filled with emotion, “This verdict doesn’t bring you back, but it does help bring closure to this very difficult chapter of my life,” she said.

Tensions Flare in Arbery Death Trial as Jesse Jackson Visits
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Tensions Flare in Arbery Death Trial as Jesse Jackson Visits

Russ Bynum, AP NewsNovember 18, 2021

A judge denied mistrial requests on Monday at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by weeping from the gallery where the slain Black man’s parents sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Georgia prosecutor wants to bring shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery to grand jury: ‘This is murder’
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Georgia prosecutor wants to bring shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery to grand jury: ‘This is murder’

Russ Bynum The Associated PressMay 7, 2020

A Georgia prosecutor said Tuesday that he wants a grand jury to decide if criminal charges are warranted in the death of a man shot after a pursuit by armed men who later told police they suspected him of being a burglar. 

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed Feb. 23 in a neighborhood outside the coastal port city of Brunswick. No one has been arrested or charged in the case, prompting an outcry from the local NAACP and others. Arbery was black and the men who chased him are white.