[1]Ayanna Pressley

Content Warning: This email discusses a hate crime



On February 23rd, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25 year old Black man, was out for a
jog in his neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia when two white men chased
him down in a pickup truck and shot him to death.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched.

And local officials in Georgia failed to act.

District Attorney George E. Barnhill even told the police that there was
no reason to charge the two men responsible — Gregory and Travis
McMichaels. Then, on May 5th, video footage of the murder emerged and went
viral online, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations took over the case.
On May 7th, 74 days after Ahmaud’s murder, the McMichaels were arrested
and charged with murder and aggravated assault.

For two months, multiple officials in Georgia either failed to act or
sought actively to avoid arresting the two men responsible. That the
McMichaels felt emboldened to hunt down and murder Ahmaud Arbery in the
middle of the day, and the callous disregard for Ahmaud’s life shown by
officials in Georgia are evidence of the deep and pervasive racism and
white supremacy that continues to rob us of innocent Black lives.

Black while walking. Black while eating. Black while jogging. Black folx
in our country are at constant risk of being murdered — on the street, in
their homes, in their cars, in church — because of racism and hatred.

Make no mistake, there will be no justice served. In a just America,
Ahmaud would be alive and celebrating his 26th birthday with his family.

Together, we must stand up and call for accountability.

The district attorneys who failed to act — who devalued and dismissed
Ahmaud’s life — must resign. The Department of Justice and the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia must recognize and
investigate this murder for what it was — a lynching, a hate crime.

[ [link removed] ]Will you now add your voice to demand that the Department of Justice
and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia immediately
begin a hate crime investigation?

Together, we say his name — Ahmaud Arbery — and continue to demand
accountability for this heinous act of injustice.

In solidarity,

The A-Team


 


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