Thanks ,
@JaxFlaGal !
I was looking for this.
I think the edited/fast-forwarded clips were for time constraints on various news sites; and not necessarily to prove jogging/walking ?
Unbelievable. ^^^
Gmafb.
LE had reason that very day, to make an arrest for both shooters re. my previous post and links.
And this act of violent crime would have been dealt with as necessary and a full investigation started.
The DA (both of them) shut LE down and would not allow it.
Now, all of a sudden it's LE's fault ?
Liars.
Tom Durden and Jackie Johnson.
I'd be interested in what other cases have crossed their desks.
And which ones were dismissed/downplayed/charges dropped, if any ?
A man is dead and
the DA's wanted this shut down.
Imo.
I looked at the stats on the community this happened in late last night, "unincorporated" means
sans or
without corporation. I lived in an unincorporated town in South Carolina some years ago, and thus have a little experience with how they work.
The county sheriff's office has jurisdiction, as there's no municipal LE for the town. Same for fire service, no paid service and there has to be an agreement or something similar for either a local paid fire department or a volunteer department or both to service the town.
There's a possibility the DA's office and the Glynn county sheriffs didn't want this to become public, they figured they could keep it under wraps and keep the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation out of it, despite it being a possible civil rights case, especially after the video surfaced. By "civil rights" I mean Arbery's general civil/personal rights, not necessarily anything racial. His rights under the U.S. Constitution being violated, and the government(s) not backing him on his rights, in this case in death.
There should have been an investigation done in earnest by the local sheriffs office, from the word go in this case.
I've been involved in two grand juries in my life. What is now happening in this case is what should have happened early on, Arbery can't speak for himself, he's dead. His "advocate", to use a term, should have been the DA's office if it came down to that. Instead, it looks like people didn't consider various possibilities early on in the case, and there's a possibility they overlooked a lot because of McMichael Sr.'s work history, maybe who he knows, etc.
What Arbery was up to doesn't matter at this point, he wasn't arrested. He's dead. He didn't attack anyone not did he violate anyone's rights.
In my mind's eye, this doesn't fall under the category of "justifiable homicide", not anything close. To me it looks like a lynching, the legal definition of it:
lynching | Definition, History, & Facts
Lynching, a form of
violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering
justice without
trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting
torture and corporal mutilation. The term
lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without
due process of law. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736–96), a Virginia planter and
justice of the peace who, during the
American Revolution, headed an irregular court formed to punish
loyalists.
Using that as a guide, I'm of the opinion the father and son were judge, jury, and executioner for someone who didn't violate anyone's rights.
JMO
