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As Ahmaud Arbery lay dead in the middle of the street in a pool of his own blood, Greg McMichael—a white man now charged with murder—referred to the slain 25-year-old Black man as an “a—hole,” according to testimony Tuesday.
Glynn County Police Officer Jeffrey Brandeberry, who was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene on Feb. 23, 2020, recounted his conversation with Greg just minutes after Greg’s son Travis McMichael shot Arbery as he ran down the road, Fox News reports.
“This ain’t no shuffler,” Greg said, according to a transcript of Brandeberry’s body camera read in court. “This guy’s an a—hole. He was hooked up when he came around that street.”
Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan—who drove in another vehicle and filmed the deadly encounter—are all charged with murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment in connection with Arbery’s death. They’ve pleaded not guilty.
Brandeberry testified that Greg told him shortly after the shooting that he saw Arbery running down the street and believed he was responsible for a series of break-ins in the neighborhood.
Greg said he called to his son and they got their own weapons before jumping into his pick up and pursuing Arbery as he ran down the street, because he wasn’t sure if Arbery was armed, USA Today reports.
“I don’t take any chances,” Greg said at the time, according to the transcript.
When asked later whether Arbery had, in fact, been armed, Greg said that he didn’t know.
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