Texts show Ahmaud Arbery murderers repeatedly using racial slurs, FBI analyst tells court

Travis McMichael described violence against Black people and made frequent racist comments, FBI analyst testified

Two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, including some violent comments by Arbery's shooter about Black people, an FBI witness testified Wednesday in their federal hate crimes trial.

Amy Vaughan, an FBI intelligence analyst, led the jury through more than two dozen conversations that Travis McMichael and William Roddie" Bryan had with others, identified only by their initials, in the months and years before the 25-year-old Black man's killing.