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2 min readJul 18, 2020

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Um, no. They ran him down in multiple vehicles, filming. They badgered and harassed. He wasn’t on private property, he was on a public street. Whether or not he had trespassed previously is irrelevant and a poor justification for their behavior. And it just doesn’t fly.

They clearly had recording capabilities, they could have documented and called the police like a normal person. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands. That’s why there are vigilante laws in place.

Trespassing is a misdemeanor. Ergo, death is not an appropriate response.

They’ve already been proven to be liars. They lied about the 3rd person filming being their buddy. Why should we just believe their claim of trespassing carte blanche when they are the ones who have perjured themselves?

Presumably, father and son called up that 3rd buddy to run down Arbery which mean it wasn’t a response to a misdemeanor crime that went awry, it was a planned and executed lynching.

Honestly, the only thing lacking was a pack of attack dogs in the back of the pickup.

It doesn’t matter if he had a legal right to carry. A legal right to carry does not give you a legal right to murder, threaten, intimidate, harass, or point said gun at another citizen. The minute you do, you’ve exceeded the bounds of your 2nd amendment rights and broken the law. And btw, that’s much worse than trespassing.

The minute that fool pointed his gun at Ahmad, Ahmad had reasonable expectation that his life was in imminent danger and so he took a chance to protect himself and tried to grab the gun. That was not assault. That was self defense. Any of us would have done the same. Sadly, he wasn’t successful and they shot him dead.

The father was a retired cop. He knew better. And so do we.

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