Viewer discretion is advised: Video footage show the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery, an African American Georgia resident, who was killed in broad daylight while on an afternoon jog. The video shows two men, who have not been charged, shooting and killing Arbery after following him in their vehicle. The case, which has caught the attention of VP Joe Biden, remains stalled as the state’s District Attorney vowed to bring the evidence to a grand jury, while state courts are closed until June despite businesses being open for use amid the pandemic. Former NYPD Detective Marq Claxton joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the evidence. Claxton argues the status of the case, saying “the cover up would have been quite successful if there had not been some disclosure of this videotape.” S. Lee Merritt, Esq, civil rights attorney and attorney for the Arbery family, also joins the discussion. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 5/6/2020.
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'Cover Up'? Unarmed Black Jogger Gunned Down In Georgia, Igniting Protest | MSNBC
Confederate South never came out of Slavery times
@Tanner Shortnacy … but this was in Georgia + those killers weren’t arrested. Something’s VERY wrong there.
@JJ Anderson not for America
JJ Anderson the prosecutor is friends with one of the guys. It would be wrong for him to do so. He withdrew himself from the case they cannot get another prosecutor because of the virus. It’s gonna happen we all know that.
The very first kkk chapter is in Indiana and that’s up north
Cop out ….folks need to register to vote and get involved it’s not their south it’s ours!
Cowards followed him. Started a fight and once they got they behind whooped they shot him. Checks out.
Simon Price He wasn’t chasing the truck, he was jogging and the guy jumped out of the truck and attacked him.
No, first shot was fired after the victim charged the son.
@Simon Price ,
The bottom line is your murdering friends are going to jail for life.
Such losers !
@TruthBeTold I never was yours ,
So, your evil country is like Afghanistan i.e.?
Civilians chase people (in this case, a jogger) on the streets with guns ?
In any normal/civilised country, it absolutely wouldn’t matter if the victim tried to grab your gun or not : you’ll go to jail for life (or death sentence ).
@TruthBeTold I never was yours you mean after the victim defended himself against armed assailant’s?
One of the two so-called “men” who murdered Arbrey was a former district investigator with many ties to local police. The only reason this is coming back up is because the video shows that the murderers’ stories don’t check out and don’t match the police reports.
So yeah, this was Georgia approved lynching. In 2020. Make America Great Again, the hat said. Cool cool. 👎
@Thad Stevens the guard wasn’t shot by Trump supporters
@Robert The Bruce Right, the “you can’t make me wear a mask because this is AMURICA” people are actually Democrats. You got me.
@Thad Stevens here’s a picture of the “Trump supporters” https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020/05/04/charged-murder-family-dollar-security-guard-over-face-mask-dispute/
@Robert The Bruce And?
Yup thats probably why the evidence was not realeased and hidden, he had connections with law enforcement. They were probably going to get rid of the video, after things died down, it would have been their word vs a dead man.
They don’t want to show the guy in truck shooting him. Arrest them.
Blackberry4life. In the midst of all the ugly in the world I will go to bed knowing this beautiful mother and her family may get justice. You take care. Stay safe.
@J Fleming
Yes, same to you.
Goodnight
@Blackberry4life that’s great, glad to hear they made arrests. Good news before bed 🙌
@J Fleming
@Jennifer McGoldrick
Absolutely
Qranage suits them well
Shameful for America. My heart goes out to his loved ones. Justice NOW
How about justice for all of the victims of black on black crime that is happening almost daily in most inner cities?
@Steve Hanson How about the black victims of racism. Did u see the video of the two white guys, one a police office, follow a jogger, then shoot him down in cold blood, because “he looked” someone who was guilty of the horrible crime of trespassing. Thank God for cell phone videos!
@Cherie Cullum Yes I did, but I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of MSNBC.
Steve Hanson
It’s hilarious how that poster [Cherie Cullum] calls him a “jogger”. 🤣
He was in that neighborhood to steal. I saw the video of him dropping the tools as he was “jogging” towards the truck. Makes sense why he would get aggressive and attempt to fight a man holding a shot gun. Because he knew he had been caught. And would be in trouble.
Of course she blocked me. So that I can’t respond to her anymore. smh..
https://youtu.be/GHo_C_rsuKg
Is that a gun at 0:15 in the street?
And
https://youtu.be/Qsaw1vJe2MA
A hate crime!
Alexander THE GREAT sorry when did it happen to a white person?
larry baily yes it’s a Hate crime. He was targeting because he was black.
If this had been a white jogger none of this would have happened. So incredibly sad….
I hate you
@Olivia Smith he wouldnt look suspicious then would he?
wow even the police is corrupted. They should have that entire department investigated. How many people have these guys killed in the name of self defense
Moon 30001 Oh, I am well aware of what we are seeing. Three heavily armed white men in trucks stalked and murdered Ahmaud who was simply a jogger. I know ✌️
@Free American no…but the incidents was reported and the father had connections with the local law enforcement. It’s out in the investigation. And were not charged and they were free for 2 months. Hence their police is corrupt..because this is some C grade Hollywood level movie plot.
many of the cops are just as bad or worse than the criminals
I was thinking the same thing!!!!!!
Moon 30001 YES NOTHING NEW
That was nothing but a lynching. A broad daylight Georgia lynching. If anyone can’t see it they don’t want to. They, the killers
He chased his lynchers lol
I absolutely agree. There is no justice in Georgia. The video shows in my opinion the shooters were waiting/planning for this crime. They should be arrested!
Not a lynching. Don’t use that kind of language that’s not what happened it was clearly murder performed by 2 of the stupidest people in the planet
@Tanner Shortnacy I can’t see it either – I saw a guy (presumably Mr Arbery) assault an armed man (presumably Mr McMichael), and get shot in the process.
Didn’t they call the police when they were in “hot pursuit”, and isn’t that kind of inconsistent with a “lynching”. Maybe you people can get a serious take on this event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcB6l3r0E04
This wasn’t a killing, it was a lynching. He was murdered, and they deserve life!
Mars Tru He wasn’t going after them. He was just jogging and they attacked him.
Chris Stephenson They literally attacked him out of nowhere. He was completely innocent, and the father and son are disgusting people who deserve life in jail.
@Jordan White Who in their right mind would charge a man armed with a shotgun?
Commentary Activism EXACTLYY BINGO
What’s a lynching
First degree murder. Clearly. Obviously. No excuse for this killing.
Steve Withers no ot will be manslaughter. The jogger choose to run to them after eveything that happened prior to the video including him knowing they were following him after he enter premises illegally. He still choose to run to two armed men (legally -arm) from 20-30 yards away and try to fight them and physically out his hands in first.
I freely do sorry he’s dead. But NOONE of any race should run towards 2 lahlly armed men and try to fight them and take their guns. No murder. It will be manslaughter at most and involuntary onset manslaughter. Clean record. Do few years most.
U have to understand how the system works. Unfortunately I been thru it is lot
Anthony Ward this ain’t a hate crime. Learn the real facts. Read the documents. Watch the other video msm is showing u. Learn the backstory.
Ur being ignorant and uneducated on this. Do ur due diligence don’t be like fake news
Dale Hartley huh? All murder involves hate. U don’t murder someone u love and in love. Even if it’s for love, u killed someone. I’m and with hate.
New evidence
https://youtu.be/twtt_8x162c
He deserved it
This murder happened in Feb 2020, and still yet no arrest made as of today, May 06, 2020?
Their
@Leon Flames You absolutely can not blame this on Trump. It’s the two people who murdered him. No one else.
Aaaaaaand?
@Spiritual Sungazer so do you want a cookie ?
Albert Diaz nothing intelligent to say huh
Smells awfully like another cover–up of mistakes that led to the death of another innocent man. All to common in this day and age.
@Thereal 1 he’s talking about the Police Department trying to cover up their own mistakes of being biased towards one of the assailants because he was a police officer
@Thereal 1 You really should pause for thought before acting impulsively.
Gethsemane not really, it’s the cover up of a murder. Wilful actions and not ‘mistakes’ as you put it. Replying to your words is not impulsive, murdering a man was.
@Patsy Sadowski I’ve no idea why they shot what appears to be an innocent man, maybe they ‘mistook’ him for a thief? That still doesnt excuse their actions. They should’ve been arrested regardless, so both they and the Police investigation have made some grave mistakes. When ‘armed’ citizens take the law into their own hands, it rarely has a positive outcome. Law enforcement in some parts of the states in needs root and branch reform, theres a need for a national IPCC that should always be called in cases such as this, but that needs political will and Americas political system is outdated when it comes to making such changes.
@Patsy Sadowski well said
They murdered him. Period. We want justice. 🙏♥️
Me too. That was murder, cold blooded murder and they know it, too. Get them.
Justice? They get caught in their lies and “do the right thing” and we call that justice? The opportunity for justice ship has sailed. The only justice is these idiots are so ignorant they told on themselves by disclosing the video…
Attempted kidnapping turns into public man Slaughter
The dad is a retired cop with connections in the force. They will get off, with a false, self defense claim. If you are black in America, and you encounter a racist….. the law will never be on your side. Awful country. I lived there for 3 years
……never again.
Naomi you’re disrespectful AF who do you think you are so negative you rott with that kind of reaction
Those guys murdered him, plain and simple!!
Eye for an eye. Let the dad spend rest of life in prison and execute 34 year old son. So the dad can experience loss of son and feel the other families pain.
I think they should both be executed
YUP,YOU RIGHT! LETS BRING THIS ENERGY TO LIFE
Gun on ground at 0:15.
https://youtu.be/GHo_C_rsuKg
https://youtu.be/Qsaw1vJe2MA
Citizen’s arrest with no proof of crime. More like citizen’s murder.
@Donnettia Mayer Yes I have seen that video, but you are going to have to explain your purpose is for posting it. You and I have had no prior interactions so I don’t know what you point you are making.
@Damon Coleman it shows him going into a house minutes before the shooting. He wasn’t just innocently jogging. I’m not saying he deserved to be killed but the man wasn’t completely innocent.
@Donnettia Mayer Thanks for the reply. The problem with the video though is that it shows nothing of what he was accused of by the McMaster’s. They said that he broke into a house and stole. The house was under construction with no doors or windows, so there was no breaking in. The video shows him just looking around and not taking anything, so there was no theft. In short, the video actually disproves their accusations. At most you could say that he was trespassing, but I and I’m guessing plenty of other people have looked into a house under construction.
he broke into a house under construction
New evidence
https://youtu.be/twtt_8x162c
They need to get life in prison without the possibility of parole.
They won’t…they should buy they won’t.
hahaha i hope ignorant fools like you who dont understand law and facts ever get on any jury
It’s not that complicated. He’s UNARMED and was shot down by two armed men who are not law enforcement. There should’ve been charges and arrests. PERIOD.
writer’s block Do you seriously believe they intended to murder him? That if the jogger just ignored them and pretended like they were invisible, that they would have shot and killed him? I think they may be guilty of manslaughter. But a lynching? lol, NO.
@Chris Stephenson look here your wrong about that
@Hardo Wider NOT attack and get killed?
god your dumb the black attacked the white guy what video did you see ? not the one with your mom in the ghetto i hope
Ever heard of white privilege? Perfect example of another person gone too soon in the name of HATE.
Looks like clear Premeditated Homicide based on race, and backed up by a racist-friendly police who refuses to bring the “good ole boys” to justice. #ModernDayLynching
@Thad Stevens where does it say they stopped him 3 times??I missed that!
@InjunChiefI see two aggressors who were armed with shotguns, and admitted to purposefully stopping the victim. I want you to define “premeditation.”
That’s a capital crime sir…now it’s up to Georgia to know the right sentence
@Thad Stevens There were shots fired after the “jogger ” attacked the man with the shot gun who had his gun pointed at the ground.It’s Self defense whether he burglarized a home or not.He attacked the man with the gun.Its on video and you are still blind.Plus something was dropped in the road some say it was a hammer possibly a crow bar.I saw the object but honestly cannot tell what it is.
Why would the gun men have their lawyer film the whole thing if as you say premeditated murder??
nope but you have premeditated stupidity
The police should also be charged. They lied to the family and told his mom he was committing a burglary.
@Jason Watson he got attacked, what do you do when someone jumps you? Sure you don’t just stand there!!! Don’t try and victim blame here, just makes you look bad!!!
@I love Nikk_ Yes they did, but only when he went for his gun.
@C M Where did he get attacked, punches, kicks? Only scuffling when he tried to take his gun, so who looks bad?
O:15 gun on ground. https://youtu.be/GHo_C_rsuKg
https://youtu.be/Qsaw1vJe2MA
They have film of him in a home that is under construction and at 51 sconds in this video you can see the hammer in the street that he stole and dropped. He didnt deserve to die but he did put himself in a situation by going into the home, stealing then running.