Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers driven by ‘pent-up racial anger’, prosecutor says

Prosecutor makes closing arguments in hate crimes trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William Roddie' Bryan

Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery on a residential street acted out of pent-up racial anger" and should be convicted of hate crimes, a federal prosecutor told a jury on Monday.

Travis McMichael, the man who pulled the trigger and fatally shot Arbery, was just looking for a reason" to hurt a Black person when he saw the 25-year-old jogging on his street, the prosecutor argued, citing a slew of racist comments and videos McMichael had posted online.