Political Quotes

“So the citizen's arrest laws should be very clear. The defendants were wrong. The case resulted in a conviction because the case says that you have to witness the crime, and they did not. I include in the Record an article titled ``Ahmaud Arbery and the case for getting rid of citizen's arrests.'' [From the Vox, Nov. 10, 2021] Ahmaud Arbery and the Case for Getting Rid of Citizen's Arrests Nearly two years after Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in a suburban Georgia town while jogging, the three white suspects accused of the slaying-- Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor, William ``Roddie'' Bryan--are now on trial. They face charges on a total of nine counts, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment. Arbery's killing in February 2020 ignited national outrage. When a video Bryan recorded from his vehicle while following Arbery went viral online, viewers called it an unequivocal lynching. The graphic footage shows the McMichaels, both carrying guns, pursuing Arbery in a truck after he ran down their street in the mostly white Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick. Following a short chase, the men corner Arbery, and a confrontation between Arbery and Travis McMichael ensues. During the struggle, Arbery is shot three times, twice in the chest, after which he slumps to the ground. It took 74 days after Arbery's death for the men to be arrested and charged.…”