( Reuters) – Among the white guys charged in the Georgia killing of Ahmaud Arbery utilized a racial slur after shooting the unarmed black man, a detective affirmed in court on Thursday, an explosive allegation in among the cases roiling race relations in the United States.
After more than 5 hours of arguments throughout which a prosecutor stated Arbery, 25, had been “chased, hunted and ultimately executed”, Glynn County Chief Magistrate Judge Wallace Harrell ruled likely cause existed and the case might go to trial.
Unique Agent Richard Dial of the Georgia Bureau of Examination (GBI) said William Bryan told his office in an interview last month that Travis McMichael said the slur as Arbery lay dying from shotgun injuries on Feb.23 Bryan and McMichael are both accuseds in the event.
” Mr. Bryan stated that after the shooting occurred before cops arrival, while Mr. Arbery was on the ground, that he heard Travis McMichael make the declaration: fucking nigger,” Dial said in testimony.
The Arbery case activated a nationwide protest after cellular phone video of the shooting was leaked on social media a month ago. Thursday’s hearing follows more than a week of demonstrations throughout the United States over the May 25 death in Minneapolis poli