Testimony wraps up in hate crimes trial over Arbery killing

Published February 18, 2022 12:05 PM

By RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Witness testimony has concluded in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Prosecutors rested their case Friday after calling three witnesses who said they recalled racist statements by two of the defendants, father and son Greg and Travis McMichael. Defense attorneys called a single witness: a neighbor who said a white man she saw camped out under a bridge near their Georgia neighborhood may be the same man the McMichaels reported to police as suspicious in July 2019. The McMichaels and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan have pleaded not guilty to charges they violated Arbery’s civil rights by chasing and killing him in their neighborhood two years ago.

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