On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, 25, jogging in Brunswick, a coastal locality of Georgia, when he was hunted by the two men accompanied by a neighbor.
Le Monde with AFP
The American federal justice condemned to life prison on Monday, August 8, two white men, a father and his son, guilty of having chased and killed in 2020 the young black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael, 36, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, had already been sentenced to perpetuity without possibility of early release by the justice of the State of Georgia, where the crime was committed.
The federal judge officiating during this second trial condemned the two men to perpetuity for “racist crime” and refused their request for transfer in a federal prison for the rest of their sentence.
Emblem of the Black Lives Matter movement
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, 25, jogging in Brunswick, a coastal locality of Georgia, when he was hunted by the two men, armed and accompanied by a neighbor. After a few minutes of chase, Travis McMichael had shot the young African American. Ahmaud Arbery had then become an emblem of the Black Lives Matter movement during the major anti-racist demonstrations of 2020.
The third accused, William Bryan, who participated in the prosecution of Ahmaud Arbery by filming her, had been sentenced during the first perpetuity trial with the possibility of early release after thirty years of imprisonment. His sentence in the federal trial has not yet been pronounced.