Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery's death a 'lynching of an African American man

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday called the shooting death of an unarmed African American jogger a "lynching" and said arrests of two accused men would not have been made if there was not video of the incident

"It's heartbreaking that it's 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man," Bottoms said of Ahmaud Arbery's death on CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."

Arbery, 25, was shot and killed on February 23 while jogging in southern Georgia. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested Thursday -- three months following the fatal shooting -- after a 36-second video that appears to show the incident went viral.

The two white men face charges of murder and aggravated assault in Arbery's killing. Arbery, a former high school football player, would have turned 26 years old on Friday.



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/keisha-lance-bottoms-atlanta-mayor-calls-ahmaud-arberys-death-a-lynching-of-an-african-american-man/ar-BB13S6Hi?li=BBnbfcL

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Is it really necessary to chime in at this point with loaded words like "lynching"? These...

two killers are finally being indicted and the point now is to make sure the trial is fair, and without public hysteria.

They shot him, and they should not get away with that, but there are so many questions about the "blue wall" and related matters that we shouldn't get distracted.

[LanternWaste]

2. So very little in this world is "really necessary.."

Message board and their responses included.

That said, you appear the only one distracted from the original incident by this. And if this is all it takes to distract you, I can onlly imagine why you'd project that disability onto everyone else.

Sheesh.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I'm the only one who mentioned it-- so far. Words have effects.

[doc03]

5. I guess not technically there wasn't a rope involved nt

[greenjar_01]

6. Extra-judicial killing of a black man by a group of white men for a perceived "criminal offense"

That's pretty much the definition of a lynching in our history.

[spike jones]

9. In Seattle the workers from China were "lynched"

by tying them to a pier at low tide and listen to them scream as the tide came in and drowned them.

[JI7]

10. Afraid of offending White Racists ? An innocent man was killed and we shouldn't talk too harshly

about the act and why it was done ?

[onetexan]

11. +1 -K&R

[doc03]

4. So I heard the Georgia AG wants Bob Barr's DOJ to investigate this

I don't have much faith in that.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Barr is not running for election.

Plus, if the feds exonerate the murderers it is a political win for trump.

[Polybius]

8. You mean William Barr

This is Bob Barr.

[doc03]

12. Oh OK my mistake nt