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3 white men are found guilty of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.😀 The three white men who chased down and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging through their Georgia neighborhood last year, were all found guilty of murder charges.

The high-profile shooting — and the 10 weeks it took for law enforcement to make the first arrests — galvanized racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020.

"It's been a long fight, it's been a hard fight, but God is good," Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said Wednesday outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. "I never thought this day would come," she added, saying her son will now "rest in peace."

After the judge read the first guilty verdict, a whoop rang out in the courtroom. "Long time coming," the person, later identified as Arbery's father, Marcus, exclaimed as the judge expelled him from the courtroom.

Father and son Greg McMichael, 65, and Travis McMichael, 35, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, all faced the same nine criminal counts in Georgia state court: one count of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of criminal attempt to commit a felony. They pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Jury continues deliberations in trial for Ahmaud Arbery's killing. A jury is continuing deliberations Wednesday in the trial of three men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. 

Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan have all been charged with murder and other counts for the death of Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging in the neighborhood in February 2020.

The court heard final rebuttal arguments from the prosecution Tuesday morning, after both the prosecution and the defense delivered their closing arguments on Monday.  

The defense claims the men acted lawfully under the state's citizen's arrest law — which was in effect at the time but has since been repealed — because they were suspicious he might have been involved in neighborhood burglaries. And they say they had a right of self-defense against Arbery who, one defense attorney said Monday, "chose to fight." 

The prosecution disputed all of that.

"All three of these defendants made assumptions — made assumptions about what was going on that day, and they made their decision to attack Ahmaud Arbery in their driveways because he was a Black man running down the street," lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski told the jury.

13 Philadelphia police officers who made racist, offensive Facebook posts to be fired

The 13 are among 72 officers in the city placed on administrative duty after an online database shared more than 5,000 Facebook posts and comments from officers around the country.

Thirteen Philadelphia police officers are to be fired for making racist or offensive Facebook posts.

The 13 are among 72 officers in the city who had been placed on administrative duty after an online database called the Plain View Project shared more than 5,000 Facebook posts and comments on June 1 by current and former law enforcement officers in Philadelphia and seven other jurisdictions around the country.

Some of the posts were homophobic. Others advocated violence or were deemed racist.

In one post from 2014, a Philadelphia officer wrote that a suspect “should be taken out back and put down like the rabid animal he is,” according to the Plain View database. Another officer shared a photo in November 2015 that said Islam was a “cult” that glorified “death.”

In a recent post from February, an officer with the city's police department commented on a news article about an alleged murderer, writing, “hang him.”

Plain View Project said the Facebook posts and comments "could undermine public trust and confidence in our police."

The Philadelphia Police Department conducted an internal investigation with a law firm to determine if some of the posts by its officers were constitutionally protected speech.

The department announced disciplinary actions Thursday that depended on how egregious the Facebook posts by those individual officers were.

Some of the 72 officers who had been placed on administrative duty will be suspended for five days, police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. said at a news conference Thursday.

Seventeen others will face more severe disciplinary action, including the 13 who will be suspended with the intent to dismiss, according to Ross. The remaining four will receive 30-day suspensions, he said.

"I continue to be very angered and disappointed by these posts," Ross said. The 13 officers to be fired made posts that "advocated violence."

Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges

Rittenhouse, 18, claimed self-defence in shooting of protesters at racial justice demonstration in Wisconsin last year.

A jury in the United States has found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges related to the shooting of protesters at a demonstration against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.

Rittenhouse, now 18, had faced a potential life sentence for fatally shooting two demonstrators, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and wounding a third, Gaige Grosskreutz, during the mass protests on August 25, 2020.

 two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering safety.

Rittenhouse broke down sobbing after the verdict, which came shortly after the judge warned the courtroom to remain silent or be removed.

The widely watched case stirred bitter debate across the US over racism, gun violence, and vigilantism, with several civil rights and racial justice groups denouncing Friday’s verdict as a “travesty”.

“Rittenhouse’s trial highlights an urgent need for reform for both police and the criminal legal system. The system is broken, and it desperately needs to be fixed,” Shaadie Ali, interim executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin, said in a statement.

The verdict in the #KyleRittenhouse case is a travesty and fails to deliver justice on behalf of those who lost their lives as they peacefully assembled to protest against police brutality and violence,” the NAACP, a racial justice advocacy group, said in a tweet.

The Congressional Black Caucus, a group of Black federal lawmakers, added: “It is unconscionable our justice system would allow an armed vigilante … to go free.”

Black Pastors Gearing Up to Support Family of Ahmaud Arbery - Black pastors from around the nation are answering the call to support the family of Ahmaud Arbery in court during the trial for the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black jogger. ... Despite Gough's apology, Black pastors are gearing up to head to Brunswick to support the Arbery family.

(Breaking News) Second Attempt To Have Rev Jesse Jackson Remove The Court Room & For A Acquittal.🤔 This is the second Attempt to have the Honorable Reverent Jesse Jackson removed from the court room In the Murder case of Ahmaud Arbery From all 3Attorneys In this case and the Second attempt From William Rodney Brian's attorney for a Acquittal. These motions were denied by the Judge.

‘Don’t Want Any More Black Pastors in Here’: Lawyer Tries to Kick Al Sharpton Out of Arbery Trial

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TWO ATLANTA POLICE OFFICERS INDICTED IN DEATH OF JAMARION ROBINSON WHO WAS SHOT 76 TIMES.👮 Back in 2016, two police officers shot a man a total of 76 times, killing him during a police raid at the victim’s girlfriend’s apartment in Georgia. On Tuesday, a grand jury in Fulton County indicted those two police officers in the 2016 death of Jamarion Robinson.

According to The AJC.com, Eric A. Heinze, the Assistant Chief Inspector with the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and Kristopher L. Hutchens, a Clayton County police officer who was working as a task force officer with the U.S. Marshals Service at the time of the tragic incident, were charged with two counts of felony murder for the death of Robinson.The two law enforcement officials were also each indicted on six other counts: aggravated assault, burglary, and two counts each of making false statements and violation of oath by a public officer.

The Associated Press reported that based on a medical examiner’s report, the 26-year-old Robinson had been shot 76 times by police on Aug. 5, 2016, when officers tried to enter an apartment he was in. They apparently went to the apartment as they believed Robinson had previously pointed a gun at Atlanta police officers and fled the scene. Robinson’s family had stated previously that their son, who suffered from mental illness, was at his girlfriend’s house at the time of the incident when 16 police officers broke down the door.

“Over 90 rounds were fired at my son, flash-bang grenades were thrown at him, landed on him burning him. Somebody walked up the stairs, stood over him, and shot down into his body two more times. After that he was handcuffed and drug down a flight of stairs,” Monteria Robinson remarked at a news conference in June 2020.