Ahmaud Arbery

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/10/2022
  

  Life Sentences for Arbery's Killers Nothing to Celebrate

  by Joseph Margulies

  A defense attorney and legal expert warns that the harsh sentences imposed on perpetrators of a racist killing help to validate a punitive system of incarceration that overwhelmingly harms people of color. 

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• 2/20/2022
  

  Ugly Echoes of Historical Miscegenation Panic in Federal Trial of Arbery's Killers

  by Elise Lemire

  Text messages revealed in the federal trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers reveal a potent fear of interracial sexuality that has long shadowed conflicts over power in American society. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  11/18/2021
  

  Black Clergy's Presence at Trial of Arbery's Killers is Nothing Unusual

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Black clergy have always taken leadership in challenges to racist violence; the trial judge has no good reason to bar their attendance.

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• 11/7/2021
  

  Citizen's Arrest Law at Center of Trial of Arbery's Killers Originated in Slavery

  by Alan J. Singer

  The three men on trial for killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia are counting on a jury to accept their claim that they were executing a citizen's arrest on Arbery. Georgia's citizen's arrest law, since repealed, shares in the racist history of similar laws across the nation.