By Simret Aklilu and Chandelis Duster, CNN
Updated 3:17 PM ET, Sun May 10, 2020
(CNN)Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday called the shooting death of an unarmed African American jogger a “lynching” and said arrests of two accused men would not have been made if there was not video of the incident.
“It’s heartbreaking that it’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man,” Bottoms said of Ahmaud Arbery’s death on CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
Arbery, 25, was shot and killed on February 23 while jogging in southern Georgia. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested Thursday — three months following the fatal shooting — after a 36-second video that appears to show the incident went viral.
The two white men face charges of murder and aggravated assault in Arbery’s killing. Arbery, a former high school football player, would have turned 26 years old on Friday.
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