If you’re a Democratic politician, it always comes back to Donald Trump.
This includes the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Two white men have been arrested in the killing of Arbery, a black man, after a video of his shooting in Brunswick, Georgia, on Feb. 23 was released on social media.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, have been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the case, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
The facts of the situation, to an outside observer, look particularly vile. The McMichaels claim that they’d tracked down Arbery because, they said, he appeared to match the description of a burglar in the neighborhood.
If you’ve seen the video — and if not, it’s best if not viewed — it shows two very angry men chasing down a man who appears to be jogging, initiating a physical conflict with him and then shooting him, purportedly in self-defense.
It looks horrible. The president has said it looks horrible. And yet, the mayor of Atlanta thinks Trump is somehow responsible for the killing, calling it a “a lynching of an African-American man.”
read more here: https://www.westernjournal.com/atlanta-mayor-blames-controversial-arbery-shooting-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=flagandcross-newsletter&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=firefly“It’s heartbreaking that it’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says about the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. https://t.co/GGX09XO2Ra #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/GiEUoqozF0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 10, 2020
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