Dozens Of Racist Messages Introduced In Hate Crimes Trial Of Arbery’s Killers

Day two of the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery began with an FBI analyst presenting dozens of racist social media messages sent and shared by the men. The prosecutors aim to prove that Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan chased and attacked Arbery due to racial bias. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1494037909867044869 From the Washington Post:

One of the three White men convicted in Ahmaud Arbery’s murder did not want his daughter dating a Black man and called him the n-word in a text message, according to the FBI.

Another shared a meme that claimed “White Irish slaves were treated worse than any other race in the U.S.” The third, Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery in February, 2020, spoke about killing Black people and wrote in a message that he loved his job because “zero n—–rs work with me.”

“We used to walk around committing hate crimes all day,” he wrote in another text conversation a few months before the shooting.

All three were found guilty of the murder of Arbery last fall and sentenced to life in prison. Travis McMichael was about the best witness the prosecution had in the first trial. https://twitter.com/TheConsciousLee/status/1461692394055901184