On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was chased and then shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery’s family says he was out jogging when Gregory and Travis McMichael shot and killed him. But attorneys for the McMichaels says the father and son thought Arbery was a burglar. One year after the 25-year-old’s shooting death, an eruption of protests, and a global health pandemic, the McMichaels and William “Roddie” Bryan, the man who authorities say recorded the shooting on his cellphone, remain in jail.
Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look” dives deep into who the athlete was and what’s next for the men charged in his death.
Show host Rose Scott talks with Hank Klibanoff, an Emory University professor, a veteran journalist, a Pulitzer-prize-winning author and the host of the WABE podcast “Buried Truths,” along with criminal defense attorney and WABE legal analyst Page Pate, and Gerald Griggs, an Atlanta-based attorney and social justice activist. There have been about a year of protests following the shooting deaths of several unarmed black men and women and the latest developments in the Arbery case.
To listen to the full conversation, click the audio player above.
