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.
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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