Three Men Found Guilty of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery
The defendants were found guilty of murder and other charges on Wednesday for the pursuit and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. They face up to life in prison.
That’s the headline in the New York Times.
I never thought I would live to see the day when a jury of 11 white people and one black person in Brunswick, Georgia, would find three white men, pleading self-defense, to be guilty of murder of a black man.
After Ahmaud Arbery was killed while jogging, local prosecutors didn’t want to bring charges against the men who chased Arbery down and killed him. They said there was no crime. But the victim’s family was relentless in seeking justice.
The New York Times wrote the first national story about this case, following the important work of the local paper, The Brunswick News. We were all following the clamor of hyper-local activism here in Brunswick, where Ahmaud’s family and friends refused to let any of this go. We learned, through a public records request, that a local D.A. was telling the police to make no arrests, because, he argued, these three men had done nothing illegal.
Justice was done.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This decision won’t bring Mr Arbery back, but it might give his poor family some peace.
The jury did the right thing.
I’ve read that the defendants in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case didn’t benefit from the millions from extremist right-wing billionaires paying for Ritenouwer’s defense team. Without all that money to buy the best lawyers, Ritenouwer probably would have been found guilty, too.
But Ritenouwer is not out of the forest yet. It seems he is facing a civil trial just like OJ Simpson did for the killing of his former wife back in the 1990s. What’s disgusting about OJ Simpson’s guilty verdict in his Civil Trial 27 years ago is that Simpson’s lawyers are still fighting in court to avoid paying the millions in penalties from losing that civil case.
TWENTY-SEVEN years later!!!!
https://wgntv.com/news/oj-simpson-still-fighting-against-orders-to-pay-60m-for-goldman-deaths-lawyer-says/
Will the extremist right-wing demons that funded Ritenouwer’s first court case, pay for the civil trial, too?
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/11/19/denver-attorney-civil-action-kyle-rittenhouse-shooting/
Though it was outrageous that defense manipulated (guessing with cooperation of the judge) jury selection into that composition, BUT since they did that makes the guilty verdict even more of a significant statement. Even when they get to make up the rules as they go along, they still lose.
My takeaway- Wisconsin is more racist than S.C. The World Population Review identified Wisconsin as one of the sites of the
4 most racist cities in the U.S.