How the murder of Ahmaud Arbery further exposes America’s broken and racist legal system
by Maya Yang from US news | The Guardian on (#5SADT)
The shooting of a man who was running while Black' has prompted calls for racial justice in the US
For many observers, the high-profile case of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was out jogging, revealed the racist ways the American legal system has been designed to treat Black people differently.
Arbery was killed in February 2020 in the coastal town of Satilla Shores, Georgia. None of the men involved were charged until eyewitness footage was made public months later, shortly before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prompting widespread protests.
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