05-11-2021 18:58 via theguardian.com

Ahmaud Arbery murder followed attack based on wrongful ‘assumptions’, prosecutors say

Lawyers played video showing Travis McMichael opening fire three times on Arbery, who was unarmed, as trial gets underwayProsecutors on Friday said the three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year placed the 25-year-old Black man under a sustained “attack” and made a series of “assumptions and driveway decisions” that led to shooting him dead.During highly charged opening statements in the closely watched trial, now infamous cellphone video of t
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