BREAKING: Travis McMichael Sentenced In Fatal Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

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Travis McMichael, who killed Arbery Ahmaud in a Georgia neighborhood, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder as well as a hate crime.

Travis was one of three men who chased Ahmaud on that tragic night.

Greg McMichael initiated the street chase and was joined by his son, Travis Michael, and William “Roddie” Bryan.

U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood then scheduled the hearings for Greg McMichael and Willian “Roddie” Byran.

The killing of Arbery has gained national attention given other alleged racial injustice and killings of unarmed black people.

The cases of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are two cases that have also involved the Justice Department bringing federal charges.

Both of McMichaels and Bryan have been convicted of federal hate crimes and kidnapping. Additional charges for using firearms to commit a violent crime have been brought up against the McMichaels.

All three men have been given life sentences by a Superior Cout Judge.

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He also recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery at close range as Arbery threw punches and grabbed at the shotgun.

Arbery was suspected of stealing from a nearby house and that Arbery was armed. Arbery’s family reported that Arbery was unarmed and out for ajog.

The McMichaels and Bryan were arrested after the graphic video of the shooting leaked online and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case from local police.

During the February hate crimes trial, prosecutors fortified their case that Arbery’s killing was motivated by racism by showing the jury roughly two dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made disparaging comments about Black people. A woman testified to hearing an angry rant from Greg McMichael in 2015 in which he said: “All those Blacks are nothing but trouble.”

Defense attorneys for the three men argued the McMichaels and Bryan didn’t pursue Arbery because of his race but acted on an earnest — though erroneous — suspicion that Arbery had committed crimes in their neighborhood.