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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...

Georgia state investigator makes claim in murder caseTravis and Greg McMichael and William ‘Roddie’ Bryan chargedA state investigator in Georgia on Thursday alleged that the white man accused of killing jogger Ahmaud Arbery was heard saying a racial slur as he stood over the mortally wounded man, moments after hitting him with three shots from a pump-action shotgun. Related: FBI investigating Ahmaud Arbery shooting...

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...

Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video obtained by the Guardian.The video comes to light as law enforcement in the area faces scrutiny after Arbery was shot dead by two white men while out for...

Officers questioned why Arbery was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017Family lawyers say video shows Ahmaud ‘harassed by police’Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video obtained...

George Barnhill eventually recused himself from Arbery caseProsecutions include woman wrongfully imprisoned for murderThe local prosecutor who argued two white men were legally justified in chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, has been at the center of aggressive and flawed prosecutions of at least two black women in recent years.One of the women was wrongfully imprisoned for over a decade...

Gregory McMichael lost his power of arrest in 2006 after failing to complete sufficient basic law enforcement training Gregory McMichael, the white retired law enforcement officer who helped chase down and kill Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, failed to complete sufficient basic law enforcement training for years, a deficiency that led to him losing his power of arrest.McMichael, who worked as...

‘Questions and concerns’ have arisen about actions of the district attorneys involved, says Georgia’s attorney generalThe Georgia prosecutors who first handled the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery before charges were filed more than two months later have been placed under investigation for their conduct in the case, which has prompted a national outcry.Georgia’s attorney general, Chris Carr, announced that he had asked the Georgia...

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...

Recordings of 911 calls obtained by the Guardian provide details on the moments before a man was shot while jogging in GeorgiaAudio recordings of two 911 calls have shed further light on the final moments before Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by two white men while jogging through a neighborhood just outside Brunswick, Georgia. Related: Ahmaud Arbery: anger mounts over killing of black jogger...