This is Jeff’s passionate take on the hunting down and cold blooded murder of Ahmaud Arbery, who apparently went jogging in the wrong neighborhood.
Pissed. Angry. Distraught. Hopeless. Any of these words describe your feelings these days? Personally, I’ve had them all in the last 24 hours. And then I saw a video of a young African-American male gunned down and slaughtered by a couple of yahoo vigilante white dudes. My head exploded.
Another one murdered—this time apparently for having the nerve to jog down the street in the middle of the day. The nerve of this young man, right? How dare he run while black, in a white neighborhood? Doesn’t he know his place?
For those of you wondering what the story is, perhaps you haven’t seen the video yet. Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, is seen being chased by two white men in a pickup truck outside the city of Brunswick, Georgia. A confrontation occurs between the younger white man and Arbery, shots were fired, and Arbery is seen falling to…
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Shocking to see how little has changed in so long. Hard to imagine the family will get the justice they seek, but we can hope.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I read this yesterday, Kim and now with your sharing it many more can read it.
That is a good thing!
I hope the family feels some justice was done with the arrest of those vile men who took this young man’s life! 😦
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There was another similar horrible crime by law enforcement in the news today.
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Another? Where Cindy?
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unbelievably horrible on every level
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And why do we even still have citizens arrest laws on the books?
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This makes me so angry Kim!!!!
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It’s a great one Jeff! And do you think it’s past time that citizens arrest laws should be wiped off the books?
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I don’t know which emotion is greatest, the frustration, anger or sorrow for another such incident. So very sorry for the family. And for a country where this continues to happen.
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I’ve been struggling with all three as well Susanne.
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I have absolutely no intention of watching this video, and I have been lucky enough to avoid it for the most part. I understand the reason behind the wide dissemination of the video, because that worked not just to spark awareness, but resulted in an actual arrest, but as far as I’m concerned it’s little more than “black snuff porn”, that keeps re-traumatizing black people, again, and again, and again.
I am supremely unable to articulate just how damn tired black people are….
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As a caucasian woman I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to walk in the shoes of a minority person, particularly a young black male. I have a friend back in Boston who had to coach her two young sons on how to behave around white people. And once they were driving they had drills on how what to do if they were pulled over by a police officer. This is insane!
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It ONLY took 74 days, a ton of incompetence, and a leaked video for these two shooters to be arrested. It took way too much for that to happen, quite frankly.
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The police chief is under investigation for other malfeasance and the DA, Barnhill should be fired.
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Absolutely. I agree with you there.
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Nothing I can say that hasn’t been said. Too sad.
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😔
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I read they are investigating the guy that took the video now…..something hinkey there as well chuq
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I believe he was with the father and son.
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This was terrible.
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Unacceptable!
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😢
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