From The Blaze:
"Larry English, the owner of a home under construction near where Arbery was killed, said someone stole $2,500 in fishing gear from him earlier this year. However, English told The Daily Beast that he never reported the theft to the police. English said his surveillance system captured a man who appeared to be Arbery "coming onto his property" on Feb. 23, but he declined to share the clips according to CNN."
I saw some people on Twitter conjecturing that the guy is older, has serious health problems and may be clamming up or backtracking now that all this attention / heat is on this case and he's saying he's had death threats:
"English, 50, said he was about 90 miles away in Douglas, Ga., where he lives with his wife and two children, when Arbery was killed. He said he is severely ill and is building the waterfront home as part of his bucket list. But he said it’s now unlikely his family will ever move into the Brunswick home because he’s faced death threats and his wife is too afraid."
The Washington Post
So we've somehow gone from "oh yeah, had $2,500 worth of fishing gear stolen and copper piping too"
(presumably the fishing gear was in the boat we see in the garage next to Ahmaud in the earlier, night time videos)
and "oh yeah, got the cameras specifically because things were stolen during construction, including copper piping"
to now "oh no no, no robberies or burglaries ever"
He said he hadn't reported the theft of the fishing gear at the time, probably thought what's the point? But he did put in the cameras.
Apparently there have been armed black panthers outside that house now, as well.
So in this context, with all this attention, maybe he's trying to distance himself from the situation / his previous statements.
We do have him on record with media though saying copper piping + fishing gear + other stuff + got the cameras specifically because of this. And as others have pointed out, people don't often have security cameras set up in an unfinished house. Someone up thread suggested this was in direct reaction to thefts in there, and now that's confirmed by English in earlier statements.
Perhaps if we were speaking to Mr. English he'd clarify
"well I just meant I didn't report any to the police, yes some stuff did go missing... and yes I got the cameras because of it, but um, of course I am so sad about Mr. Arbery's death and I-I-I have no reason to think he was involved!!!!"
Unfounded prosecutions and people changing stories out of fear are the kinds of things that can happen when there's a hate mob on the loose.
We now have it confirmed (complete with video) that Ahmaud was in that unfinished house on multiple occasions, at night, back into 2019. Sometimes shirtless, for some reason.
Expect me to believe he visited this place in the dark of night multiple times and bolted when caught in there again, and yet he never took anything from inside? From inside a site we know things went missing from?
LOL
ETA:
By the by, just imagine being so stone cold stupid that you come back to the same place over and over again to steal from it, including during the middle of the day on a Sunday, and then when you're caught by concerned neighbors, you charge at one of them who has a shotgun, punch him and try to take said shotgun, and end up dead.
What a complete, worthless, stupid, criminal idiot.
