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The killing of a young black man who was jogging in a Georgia town when he was shot dead has become a part of national debate A grand jury has returned indictments on the three suspects in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was accosted and shot dead as he went for a jog in a Georgia town, US media...

Attorney for family of black jogger shot by white men says federal authorities are looking into prosecutors and police in caseThe FBI is investigating the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger, by two white men as a possible hate crime, the Arbery family’s attorney said Monday, claiming that federal authorities had launched a criminal inquiry into two district attorneys and the police department...

Keisha Lance Bottoms decries ‘lynching’ of 25-year-old manDemocrat criticises ‘rhetoric coming out of the White House’The Democratic mayor of Atlanta has called the death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed by two white men in February, a “lynching”. Related: 'They lynched him': Ahmaud Arbery's father on the killing of his son Continue reading...

Marcus Arbery Sr says Ahmaud’s death at the hands of two white men, while he was out for a run, was an act of racismMarcus Arbery Sr says his son was just like him, fit and athletic. Related: ‘Every stone will be uncovered’: how Georgia officials failed the Ahmaud Arbery case Continue reading...

Systemic flaws within Glynn county’s district attorney offices led to a lack of action against the men involved in this ‘modern lynching’In the days and weeks after Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed, multiple Glynn county law enforcement officials failed to thoroughly investigate his death and, in one case, refused to allow police officers to make arrests.Arbery, 25, was jogging through the neighbourhood just...

Gregory and Travis McMichael confronted Arbery with two firearms as the 25 year old was jogging in Brunswick, GeorgiaThe two men involved in the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery as he jogged through his neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, in February have been charged with murder and aggravated assault.Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, were taken into custody and booked into the...