Jogging in Georgia while black.

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"He was just a thug"
"But... but whatabouta black on black crime!?"
"Liberals overplay the race card..."
"Why is this news?"

Man we are just playing the hits in this thread.
 
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IsThisTheLife said:
Look people, it's real simple - it's become abundantly clear that Arbery's character was going to land him in a bad place sooner or later. That character was what got him shot dead. If you want to believe, with nothing to support that belief, that McMichael wanted to shoot him, malice-aforethought, and was happy do have done so, you're ****** in the head.
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If the report of the McMichaels bragging on social media about the killing is true, then that would be indicative that they were happy. So we can mark that one as pending.
 
Anyone tired yet of lending a platform for racists to go on and on about how he deserved to be shot?
 
uke2se said:
Anyone tired yet of lending a platform for racists to go on and on about how he deserved to be shot?
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No. I get tired of it for a while then I stop and I get yelled at for wanting to live in a bubble and just have a circlejerk with people who agree with me.

Can't win, can't lose, can't break even, can't quit the game.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
If the report of the McMichaels bragging on social media about the killing is true, then that would be indicative that they were happy. So we can mark that one as pending.
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I'm afraid I've resorted to thread skimming here once the typical back-n-forth dialed up to eleven, and clearly I must have missed the above information. Where was this coming from? Given what I saw in the video, and I said so early on, I would not be shocked or surprised to find it be true.
Is there a clickable link for this story?
 
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Matthew Best said:
All those old white Trump supporters with goatee beards look the same to me.
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Gotta say, the resemblance is pretty strong. Even the thick lens glasses seem to be a match.

The man in the photo at the KKK rally has a tattoo visible on his left forearm. Seems like it's possible to find out for sure whether or not this is a match.

Let's just wait for our resident vigilante defenders to weigh in on this. Apparently Arbery's run in with the law was a clear sign of his poor character. Surely the elder McMichael being a supporter of the KKK will change their view of the matter. It's not like the KKK was a group of armed vigilantes that is best known for extrajudicial killings of black men.
 
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I'm sure if it turns out being true KKK member will still, somehow, be higher up on the hierarchy than a "thug" with a "character."
 
Mike! said:
I'm afraid I've resorted to thread skimming here once the typical back-n-forth dialed up to eleven, and clearly I must have missed the above information. Where was this coming from? Given what I saw in the video, and I said so early on, I would not be shocked or surprised to find it be true.
Is there a clickable link for this story?
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No. It's just something that someone posting in this thread said they'd seen reports of. No more information was forthcoming, and some perfunctory searching has revealed no hits for me.

I'd file it under "dubious" ATM, but the sister/daughter did post an unedited, close-up picture of Arbrey's corpse on Snapchat. She's admitted to that.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
Surely the elder McMichael being a supporter of the KKK will change their view of the matter.
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I'm sure we'll hear how the KKK are/were patriots trying to keep their communities safe.

It's not like the KKK was a group of armed vigilantes that is best known for extrajudicial killings of black men.
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We've already had lynching apologetics, so...
 
TheL8Elvis said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailyb...-show-ahmaud-arberys-killer-at-kkk-rally/amp/

According to the website, the older McMichael was captured in an image at a white supremacists rally in Rome, Georgia.

Looks like McMichael to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Meh, they all look alike :) . Seriously, I could pull 5 dead ringers for him on my street alone.

If true though, and he attends public rallys with his face uncovered, he is an out-and-proud klansman. Without question, dozens of people will be attesting to his involvement and public activities in seconds.

I'm not inclined to blame him for much just yet. No more or less than Roddy anyway. He did jump in the truck his son was driving. Otherwise, he called police, and didn't unholster his weapon till shots were fired, and still didn't shoot. While he's not clean by a long shot, he is cleaner than his son by a country mile
 
Thermal said:
Meh, they all look alike :) . Seriously, I could pull 5 dead ringers for him on my street alone.

If true though, and he attends public rallys with his face uncovered, he is an out-and-proud klansman. Without question, dozens of people will be attesting to his involvement and public activities in seconds.

I'm not inclined to blame him for much just yet. No more or less than Roddy anyway. He did jump in the truck his son was driving. Otherwise, he called police, and didn't unholster his weapon till shots were fired, and still didn't shoot. While he's not clean by a long shot, he is cleaner than his son by a country mile
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The elder McMichael is pretty much your generic-looking paunchy Georgia old white guy. Probably find a handful of lookalikes at any given grocery store. I too remain skeptical that this is a positive match based on this one photo.

I wouldn't be so certain that he would be well known simply from attending a KKK rally without concealing his face.

Efforts by antifascists to publicly out these kinds of people have really only picked up steam in the last few years, notably becoming a popular tactic after the Charlottesville attacks. A lot of their success can be attributed to the carelessness racists have taken towards protecting their identity.

A lot of these people who were doxxed were plainly showing their faces, and it only took a bit of social media hunting to find out who they were. These people covering their faces and taking more precaution is a more recent trend in response to the many successes of antifascists in getting people fired and otherwise ostracized.

It would be pretty bold for a law enforcement officer to openly march with the Klan, but stories of cops with links to the KKK are extremely common.

The ADL cites this photo from Rome, GA in 2016. That's all the way across the state from Brunswick. If this is McMichael, he could probably have been assured no one locally would recognize him. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/loyal-white-knights-of-the-ku-klux-klan

The date is also pre-Unite the Right, when it was generally safer to be an out-and-out Klansman without word getting back to your boss.
 
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The numerous videos where it is shown that Arbery was known to Police and Court means that it is likely that Greg McMichael knew of Arbery before 23 Feb.20.

Greg McMichael was an active Police officer during the time Arbery was arrested and stopped by Police in 2017

Greg and Travis may have planned to personally deal with Arbery after he was seen on the surveillance video on 11 Feb.20.
 
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