Article 5SA08 Ahmaud Arbery killing: defense lawyer accused of displaying ‘the essence of white supremacy’

Ahmaud Arbery killing: defense lawyer accused of displaying ‘the essence of white supremacy’

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Richard Luscombe
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump makes remark over lawyer Kevin Gough's call to ban Black pastors from courtroom

The civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Wednesday accused a lawyer defending the killers of Ahmaud Arbery of displaying the essence of white supremacy" for his call to ban Black pastors from the courtroom.

Crump was speaking as a jury in Georgia began its second day of deliberations in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Arbery, 25, who was Black, as he jogged along a road near Brunswick in February 2020.

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