Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer allegedly used a racial slur,

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mcmichaels-hearing-ahmaud-arbery/index.html

William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday during preliminary hearings.

Bryan told police McMichael said "f***ing n***er" after three blasts from McMichael's shotgun left Arbery dead in February the streets of the Satilla Shores neighborhood, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Richard Dial said. Body camera footage also showed a Confederate flag sticker on the toolbox of McMichael's truck, Dial said.

On cross-examination, Dial testified that Bryan mentioned the slur in a May 13 GBI interview, and to Dial's knowledge, Bryan had not previously made the allegation, including during a May 11 interview.

However, the agent said, there were "numerous times" on social media and via messaging that McMichael used the same slur, replying to an Instagram message sometime before the shooting by saying things would be better if someone had "blown that N-word's head off," Dial testified. Dial did not say to whom McMichael might have been referring and was not asked for more context.

The allegations came as Dial outlined the events that led to Arbery's death and told the court that before Arbery was shot, the three men charged in his murder engaged in an elaborate chase, hitting the 25-year-old jogger with a truck as he repeatedly tried to avoid them.

As Travis and his father Gregory McMichael attempted to head him off, Arbery turned and ran past the truck of Bryan, who filmed the killing, and Bryan struck Arbery with the side of his truck, Dial said.

[malaise]

1. These racists killed him as if he were less than an animal

What did we do to be so hated - other than build the fucking USA

[Demovictory9]

2. not stay within the bounds of Jim Crow laws.

[Aristus]

3. You refused to work for them for free any longer.

They will never, ever forgive the African-American community for making them get up off their lazy white asses and putting in an honest day's work for a change.

[malaise]

4. Yep

that and I hate to say it but I think there is some serious penis envy.

[Aristus]

5. HA!

[Xipe Totec]

7. That could explain Trump. nt

[malaise]

10. But then he would hate white men equally

He's a lil mushroom kind of guy

[demtenjeep]

11. bwhahahaha

I need a new keyboard

[malaise]

12. Hehehehehehe

[dawg day]

6. They went out hunting for someone to kill

Bryan, the one who filmed it, apparently was trying to block Arbery's escape, complaining that Arbery tried to get around his truck and even ran down into the ditch trying to escape.

This is so horrifying. Imagine what his last minutes were like, how trapped he was.

Emmett Till, 2020.

[KewlKat]

8. Nothing less that first degree murder...premeditated all the way!

[samsingh]

9. Heartbreaking. Poor innocent man.

[Hortensis]

13. So all three charged with the murder they committed.

That poor young man. He must have been so frightened. One look at them, that son especially, would have told anyone they were trouble.

[crickets]

14. Sickening. Lock them up and throw away the key.