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May 10, 2020

Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery killing 'a lynching'; says Trump's rhetoric gives racists permission

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms compared the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in February to lynchings in the Jim Crow-era South and said that President Trump’s rhetoric give racists “permission to do it in an overt way.”

May 10, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery case: Additional video being reviewed, authorities say

Authorities in Georgia say they are reviewing additional video in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was fatally shot while jogging through a Glynn County neighborhood in February.

May 9, 2020

Georgia lawyer says he leaked Ahmaud Arbery shooting video to 'stop a riot'

The graphic video of Ahmaud Arbery being shot on a residential Georgia street was fed to the media by a lawyer who was friends with the two men who were charged with the killing, according to a report.

May 8, 2020

Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, claims of racism, cronyism thrusts Georgia town into national spotlight

A small segregated town in Southeast Georgia is divided - and at the center of a national conversation about race - after a white father and son with ties to local police and the prosecutor were arrested two months after allegedly gunning down an unarmed 25-year-old black man jogging less than three miles from his mother's home. 

May 8, 2020

Players Coalition, athletes, coaches call for federal probe into Ahmaud Arbery shooting death

The NFL Players Coalition and other athletes and coaches called on the Justice Department and the FBI to launch a federal investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in a letter Friday.

May 8, 2020

GBI knocks local investigation into Ahmaud Arbery case, doesn't rule out other arrests in shooting death

​​​​​​​Georgia Bureau of Investigations Director Vic Reynolds on Friday took a veiled swipe at the local investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger who was allegedly murdered by a white father and son more than two months ago. 

May 7, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery case: Georgia father and son arrested, charged with murder

A father and son were arrested and charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a man whose shooting death in February has sparked protests, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday night.

May 7, 2020

Georgia shooting of Ahmaud Arbery spurs outcry

The case of a black man in Georgia who was fatally shot in February after being pursued by two armed white men is gaining widespread attention among lawmakers, particularly after a graphic video of the incident was released this week. 

May 7, 2020

LeBron James, other athletes speak out on Ahmaud Arbery shooting

LeBron James on Wednesday commented on the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, suggesting that African-Americans are “literally hunted everyday/everytime” they go outside.