The Georgia man’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.
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Defense attorneys rest their case at Ahmaud Arbery trial
Under cross-examination, Travis McMichael said that Arbery hadn’t shown a weapon or spoken to him at all before McMichael raised his shotgun on the Georgia street.
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Man who shot Arbery testifies: ‘He had my gun. He struck me’
Three white men have been charged with murder for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they spotted running through their neighborhood.
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Jurors in Rittenhouse trial to return for Day 2 of deliberations
The case went to the jury after the judge, in an unusual move, allowed Rittenhouse to draw numbered slips that determined which of the 18 jurors who sat through the trial would deliberate.
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Tensions flare in trial of men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death
A judge is denying requests to declare a mistrial in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery.
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Jury to begin deliberations in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial
Prosecutors claimed in closing arguments Monday that Rittenhouse was a ‘wannabe soldier’ who provoked bloodshed by bringing a semi-automatic rifle to a protest, while the defense countered that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.
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Officer: Ahmaud Arbery would have received trespass warning
A police officer says he would have given Ahmaud Arbery a warning for trespassing inside the unfinished home from which the young Black man was seen running before he was chased and fatally shot
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Jury selection begins in trial for Charlottesville white nationalist rally’s planners
A civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia will determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence.
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Albuquerque experiment takes police out of equation for mental health calls
The New Mexico city establishes a new category of first responder that includes social workers and others in related fields.
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Democrats see political peril in replacing Minneapolis police department
As a city that has become synonymous with police abuse wrestles with police reform, the effort is sharply dividing Democrats along ideological lines.