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You don't hear much about the Ahmaud Arbery trial because it doesn't quite fit the narrative for the media, although it involves three White men who shot and killed a Black man. The defense attorney for one of the White men asked the presiding judge to bar race hustler, Rev. Jesse Jackson from the courtroom due to his concerns that he could sway the jury.
"He is, Your Honor, we all know, an icon in the civil rights movement, not just a witness to it, he’s the personification of it," Kevin Gough, an attorney for William "Roddie" Bryan said, outside the earshot of jurors. "In the context of this trial, we object to his presence in this courtroom."
Gough had asked Judge Timothy Walmsley last week to keep out any additional "Black pastors" from the trial after Rev. Al Sharptongue [aka Sharpton] was seen prostituting his influence with Arbery's parents in the gallery.
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"How many pastors does the Arbery family have?" Gough asked the judge Monday, while Jackson stared passively from his seat. "Which pastor is next? Is Raphael Warnock going to be the next person appearing this afternoon?"
Warnock earlier this year became Georgia's first Black senator, beating out one of the most boring and wealthy Republicans ever to run in an election, Kelly Loeffler.
"There is no reason for these prominent icons in the civil rights movement to be here," said Gough. "The seats in the public gallery of a courtroom are not like courtside seats at a Lakers game." The judge, visibly irritated, rejected Gough's request and said he was "done talking about it."
Gough's client, Bryan, along with Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, is charged with murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment in the death of Mr. Arbery on February 23, 2020.
The incident took place in southern Georgia in which Bryan took cellphone video of the fatal encounter.
Prosecutors had the victim's neighbor, Carol Flowers, provide a smiling photo of 25-year-old Arbery, which did the trick by eliciting tears from the gallery whereby the judge called for a short break.
In referring to Jackson, Greg McMichael's defense lawyer, Laura Hogue, said of the emotional display that several jurors looked over at Arbery's family sympathetically and saw them "comforted by someone with whom respect abounds."
Hogue may be correct, but she cannot know what was in the jurors' minds at the time, but it's easy to see her point.
Gough made a motion for a mistrial, arguing that the proceedings have been "sufficiently infected" by emotional outbursts and the presence of revered civil rights icons in the courtroom. Attorneys for the other defendants joined the motion, which the judge denied faster than a traffic light goes from red to green and a New York cabbie blows his horn.
Jackson briefly spoke outside the courthouse calling the attempt to eject him a "diversion."
"They have a weak case," the non-lawyer Jackson said, as the victim’s father, Marcus Arbery Sr. stood beside him. "Three men killed an innocent unarmed boy." He told reporters he planned to attend the proceedings the rest of the week calling it a "constitutional right."
And hey, there's gotta be a buck to be made by Jackson and Sharptongue. They never stem the surge of violence, they provoke it.
If you've seen the video of what took place the day Arbery was shot and killed, you would be, or at least should be, totally upset. It looked terrible but there is always more to the story than a few seconds of video can explain.
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The defense has to prove that Arbery matched a description of a man who had been burglarizing a construction site that the victim was seen leaving on a jog. But they also have to show that the McMichaels, who were pursuing Arbery in their truck, and in which Bryan joined the chase, were merely intending to make a citizens arrest when Arbery grabbed the shotgun that Travis McMichael was holding.
And there is likely a lot more that isn't being said.
Thus, the defense claim the men acted in self-defense and the prosecution claims the men had no legitimate grounds to pursue the young man.
Yet somehow the media is more interested in the Kyle Rittenhouse case because it has to do with Black Lives Matter yet all of the actors in the incident are White, and one BLM supporter kept shouting the "n" word at Rittenhouse as he came after him and was killed in self-defense.
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