05-09-2020, 07:14 PM
(05-09-2020, 06:53 PM)sally Wrote: You can't really do shit in this world black or white without taking chances, it's just what the media chooses to make a deal of if so it gets noticed. In this case I think it's bullshit, but a couple of white guys here were doing construction work in the ghetto and a crazy black guy bludgeoned them to death with a hammer, but I'm sure no one heard about that.
I didn't hear about that, but I tried to find the story. I found several stories of deaths by hammer and construction workers being killed, but couldn't find a story that matched the one you mentioned.
In any case, the black hammer murderer was arrested and charged quickly, I take it?
That didn't happen in this case. Instead, the two men who chased and killed Arbery simply said that they thought he was a robber and they were forced to shoot him in self-defense after catching up to him and pulling shotguns on him.
No real investigation was conducted; the two men (father and son) were affiliated with local police and local prosecutors.
It wasn't until the video taken by a witness was released months later that this case finally got more attention and was assigned to the state bureau of investigations.
It took the state LE agency all of two days to investigate and present probable cause to arrest the two men for aggravated assault and felony murder.
I think it's an important crime story on a couple of levels and deserves the attention it's finally getting.