On Feb. 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, went out for a jog before he was chased and then killed by three white men. The men would claim they thought Arbery was robbing a nearby property and then acted in self-defense against him. Nearly one year later, those three men were convicted of murder charges. Arbery’s killing came amid a heightened national reckoning on race and racial justice in the wake of several killings of unarmed Black Americans. What can we take away from the Arbery case amid this larger landscape of the intersection of race and the U.S. justice system.
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