The Ahmad Arbery Case
I'm not sure if I have written about this case before, but in case I haven't, this sums up my views about the case precisely. I feel that these good White men got railroaded.
I watched the entire video and these White men were playing it by the book the whole time. They almost seemed like police officers in how closely they were following procedure.
The man in the back of the pickup truck had his gun pointed down at the ground. They simply said that they wanted to question him as he obviously had been caught in the midst of a crime.
If someone has a gun pointed at me and wants to question me, I think I'm going to stop and answer his questions lest he murder me! You have to obey the man with the gun! Otherwise you are a dead man.
Arbery turned around, backtracked in a completely unnecessary way. He had been running past the truck and the White men didn't do anything to stop him. They would have just followed him some more in their truck. So what?
Instead he backtracks, runs back to where …
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