ATLANTA (Reuters) – A caravan of vehicles loaded with protesters will travel from Atlanta to the small coastal neighborhood of Brunswick on Saturday to rally for a young black jogger eliminated by 2 white males who chased him down and shot him because they thought he was an intruder.
FILE PICTURE: Fans of the Georgia NAACP (National Association for the Improvement of Colored Individuals) wearing protective masks protest after the death in February of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed young black man shot after being chased after by a white previous police officer and his child, at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S., May 8,2020 REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Picture
Video of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, fired up outrage amongst activists who saw his death as the current U.S. case of white perpetrators eliminating a black guy and going unpunished. The father-and-son suspects were not detained till weeks after the shooting, and just days after the video surfaced online.
” If it wasn’t for the video, this would have been swept under the rug,” said Atlanta civil liberties lawyer Mawuli Davis, 51, one of the organizers of Saturd