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Nuggets' Michael Malone: 'Frustrating' not being able to influence social change from NBA bubble
7:11 PM ET
Hours before the Nuggets staved off playoff elimination with a 117-107 win in Game 5 against the Utah Jazz on Tuesday, a frustrated Malone and his players held an informal talk before their morning walk-through to discuss the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
Wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt, Malone vented over the fact that players and coaches can't impact change as much as they would like from within the confines of the NBA bubble in Orlando, Florida.
"I'll be honest, I don't think there is anything that we can do here that is going to stop what is happening across this country, with the latest example being Kenosha," Malone said. "... By being here, we are isolated and we can't help where maybe we need to help. It is frustrating for a lot of players, a lot of coaches, to be here.
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"But I don't think anybody thought by coming down to the bubble and wearing a T-shirt and talking and painting something on court was going to end things across this country. This has been happening for hundreds of years."
The Nuggets have been one of the most vocal teams in speaking out against racial injustice while in the bubble. Forward Jerami Grant was the first player to answer every question during his entire Zoom interview session when he spoke about Breonna Taylor's death.
Blake was shot by police as he tried to enter the driver's side door of his vehicle. Officers were responding to a domestic disturbance. Blake's father, also named Jacob Blake, said Tuesday that his son was shot seven times. Blake's attorney, Ben Crump, said his client is paralyzed and it would "take a miracle" for him to walk again.
Video of the incident, taken from a window across the street, was distributed on social media and shared by Crump. The shooting has ignited new protests months after George Floyd died when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than seven minutes.
Jazz star Donovan Mitchell had strong words following Tuesday's game, calling the fact Blake was shot seven times "inexcusable" and "disgusting."
"A lot of times where we say we don't feel safe, it doesn't matter how much money, it doesn't matter who you are," Mitchell said. "The common excuse is, 'He shouldn't have walked away, he shouldn't have not listened to the cops.' He doesn't deserve to be shot in the back, shot seven times. That's inexcusable. The point of us coming down here was to create change, and I feel that we're doing a good job of that, but not good enough. It's obviously not going to happen overnight, but it's disgusting."
"I really don't know how else to describe it as an African American male," Mitchell added. "When does it stop? When do we feel comfortable? When do we feel safe? ... I just want this s--- to stop, to be completely honest with you."
Malone said the fight for social justice and racial equality requires sustained change and education, voting the right people into office and revising policies.
And while the Nuggets were focused on forcing a Game 6, they also had their minds on much more important matters going on outside the NBA bubble.
"When we all packed our bags to come down here, we all vowed to make sure we kept the narrative and the commentary and conversation on this moment, on this movement," Malone said. "And unfortunately, even if we weren't keeping that conversation going, the outside world will not allow it to go away because it continues to happen."
"For us, this is our 50th day in the bubble," Malone later added. "I didn't expect, I don't think anybody else did, that in 50 days we are going to snap our fingers and say everything is better because the NBA was in the bubble and they said, 'Black lives matter.' That is just unrealistic. A lot more work has to go into it. But this is a start."
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- Ohm YoungmisukESPN Staff Writer
Hours before the Nuggets staved off playoff elimination with a 117-107 win in Game 5 against the Utah Jazz on Tuesday, a frustrated Malone and his players held an informal talk before their morning walk-through to discuss the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
Wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt, Malone vented over the fact that players and coaches can't impact change as much as they would like from within the confines of the NBA bubble in Orlando, Florida.
"I'll be honest, I don't think there is anything that we can do here that is going to stop what is happening across this country, with the latest example being Kenosha," Malone said. "... By being here, we are isolated and we can't help where maybe we need to help. It is frustrating for a lot of players, a lot of coaches, to be here.
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"But I don't think anybody thought by coming down to the bubble and wearing a T-shirt and talking and painting something on court was going to end things across this country. This has been happening for hundreds of years."
The Nuggets have been one of the most vocal teams in speaking out against racial injustice while in the bubble. Forward Jerami Grant was the first player to answer every question during his entire Zoom interview session when he spoke about Breonna Taylor's death.
Blake was shot by police as he tried to enter the driver's side door of his vehicle. Officers were responding to a domestic disturbance. Blake's father, also named Jacob Blake, said Tuesday that his son was shot seven times. Blake's attorney, Ben Crump, said his client is paralyzed and it would "take a miracle" for him to walk again.
Video of the incident, taken from a window across the street, was distributed on social media and shared by Crump. The shooting has ignited new protests months after George Floyd died when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than seven minutes.
Jazz star Donovan Mitchell had strong words following Tuesday's game, calling the fact Blake was shot seven times "inexcusable" and "disgusting."
"A lot of times where we say we don't feel safe, it doesn't matter how much money, it doesn't matter who you are," Mitchell said. "The common excuse is, 'He shouldn't have walked away, he shouldn't have not listened to the cops.' He doesn't deserve to be shot in the back, shot seven times. That's inexcusable. The point of us coming down here was to create change, and I feel that we're doing a good job of that, but not good enough. It's obviously not going to happen overnight, but it's disgusting."
"I really don't know how else to describe it as an African American male," Mitchell added. "When does it stop? When do we feel comfortable? When do we feel safe? ... I just want this s--- to stop, to be completely honest with you."
Malone said the fight for social justice and racial equality requires sustained change and education, voting the right people into office and revising policies.
And while the Nuggets were focused on forcing a Game 6, they also had their minds on much more important matters going on outside the NBA bubble.
"When we all packed our bags to come down here, we all vowed to make sure we kept the narrative and the commentary and conversation on this moment, on this movement," Malone said. "And unfortunately, even if we weren't keeping that conversation going, the outside world will not allow it to go away because it continues to happen."
"For us, this is our 50th day in the bubble," Malone later added. "I didn't expect, I don't think anybody else did, that in 50 days we are going to snap our fingers and say everything is better because the NBA was in the bubble and they said, 'Black lives matter.' That is just unrealistic. A lot more work has to go into it. But this is a start."
Raps talked boycotting game in wake of shooting
The Raptors on Tuesday discussed a variety of ways to respond to the police shooting of Jacob Blake -- including potentially not playing against the Celtics on Thursday.
Raptors discussed boycotting Game 1 vs. Celtics after police shooting in Wisconsin
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The Toronto Raptors held a team meeting before Tuesday's practice to discuss how they could respond to the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin -- including potentially not playing against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of a second-round playoff series Thursday.
"We knew coming here or not coming here was not going to stop anything, but I think ultimately playing or not playing puts pressure on somebody," Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said after Tuesday's practice inside the NBA's bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort.
"So, for example, this happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, if I'm correct? Would it be nice if, in a perfect world, we all say we're not playing, and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks -- that's going to trickle down. If he steps up to the plate and puts pressure on the district attorney's office, and state's attorney, and governors, and politicians there to make real change and get some justice.
"I know it's not that simple. But, at the end of the day, if we're gonna sit here and talk about making change, then at some point we're gonna have to put our nuts on the line and actually put something up to lose, rather than just money or visibility. I'm just over the media aspect of it. It's sensationalized, we talk about it every day, that's all we see, but it just feels like a big pacifier to me."
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- Frustrated Malone: Hard to spur change in bubble
- How NBA players are responding to Jacob Blake shooting
- LeBron: Black community living in fear of police
Video of the shooting, taken from a window across the street, was distributed on social media and shared by Crump.
VanVleet said Tuesday that many potential options for how the Raptors could make a statement were discussed by the team, but he declined to go into details.
"I'll keep that between our team," VanVleet said. "We're dealing with it in real time, and I think it affects everybody differently. It's pretty fresh on my mind, and I'm sitting in front of a camera, so I'm just speaking as I'm going. But, yeah, there's a lot of different things that we've discussed."
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Boston had a similar team meeting Tuesday. And while Stevens said no one had specifically told him they didn't want to play, he could see the impact Blake's shooting had had on his team.
"Obviously our thoughts go to Jacob Blake and his family," Stevens said. "And, obviously, that video was horrifying. That video was awful. And to think of three kids being in that car is like ... that just makes you shaken, right? It's ridiculous. ... We've talked about it as a team and just how we feel. We haven't talked about it enough, but obviously everybody is shook.
"There's a reason why the guys, coaches, players, everyone here has chosen to really emphasize social justice and racial equality while we're here. To think that this happens again."
On Monday night, Lakers star LeBron James said, "We are scared as Black people in America. Black men, Black women, Black kids, we are terrified."
"I thought LeBron's words were poignant last night," Stevens said Tuesday. "I've said this before: I can't pretend to understand what that's like because I don't know what that's like. But I know I've heard it over and over. So there's obviously a problem. So I completely understand everybody's emotions here and elsewhere, with regard to that."
Celtics guard Marcus Smart said that while the team hasn't specifically talked about boycotting, there is a need for them to go beyond the things they have been doing inside the bubble -- from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to kneeling for the national anthem -- to try to enact change.
"We tried to be peaceful, kneeling, we tried to protest," Smart said. "And for us, we tried to come out here and get together and play this game and try to get our voice across. But it's not working, so obviously something has to be done.
"Right now, our focus shouldn't really be on basketball. I understand it's the playoffs and everything like that, but we still have a bigger underlying issue that's going on, and the things that we've tried haven't been working. So we definitely need to take a different approach, and we definitely need to try new things out to get this thing working the way that we know it should and get our voices heard even more."
All four players who spoke Tuesday -- VanVleet, fellow Raptors guard Norman Powell, Smart and Celtics forward Jaylen Brown -- have all been vocal about racial inequality and social justice, and all were visibly upset about having to speak about this happening once again.
"At some point, like, we're the ones always with the microphones in our face," VanVleet said. "We're the ones always who have to make a stand. But, like, we're the oppressed ones, and the responsibility falls on us to make a change to stop being oppressed, you know what I'm saying? That's what it boils down to.
"Like, at what point do we not have to speak about it anymore? Are we gonna hold everybody accountable, or we're just gonna put the spotlight on Black people, or Black athletes, or entertainers and say, 'What are you doing? What are you contributing to your community? What are you putting on the line?
"And then us, too, we've gotta take responsibility as well. Like, what are we willing to give us? Do we actually give a f--- about what's going on, or is it just cool to wear 'Black Lives Matter' on the backdrop, or wear a T-shirt? Like, what does that really mean? Is it really doing anything?"
The Raptors have been vocal in their push for racial equality. They arrived at the NBA bubble in buses that had "Black Lives Matter" written in large, white script on the sides.
Over the past week, Raptors players have shown support for team executive Masai Ujiri after bodycam footage was released that shows a white San Francisco Bay Area sheriff's deputy shoving Ujiri after Toronto won Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals. The Raptors met as a team to watch the video, which was filed by Ujiri, who is Black, as a part of a countersuit.
On Wednesday, VanVleet said that the altercation emphasizes why players have continued to fight for social justice.
"Obviously we're all privileged, and Masai's pretty privileged in his world, and you just stop and think about how good we got it," VanVleet said. "Because there's people who are gonna be in that same situation walking down the street who don't have money to fight the case, who don't have 20,000 people in the stands and don't have the abilities to countersue.
"How many times do cops do things like that without the bodycam on, without arena footage? It's a tough situation."
Brown took several long pauses to compose himself Tuesday while speaking to the media. He said he even had difficulty even coming to practice.
"It was hard enough even coming down here, to be honest," Brown said. "But I guess [boycotting is] something you talk about with your team, for sure. We haven't talked about that as the Celtics. But those emotions are real. That is real. Yes, we're athletes. Yes, we're being paid to play a sport that we love. But we are human beings, members of our community. We are fathers, uncles, nephews, brothers, etc. So all those emotions are real, and I don't really have a lot to say.
"I'm just happy by the grace of God that Jacob Blake is still alive, because the police who shot him, that wasn't their intention. They shot him to kill him, and that's a problem in this country. There's a million different ways you could have dissolved that situation, and your thought was to kill him. That was the best method.
"It's definitely hard to digest or to process how you feel about it. Everything on me was on fire yesterday, waking up to it. To see people changing the framing of what he did in the past, in terms of, 'Well, he was a convicted felon,' or, 'Well, he had a history of resisting arrest or possibly had a weapon.' That is not [an] unfamiliar framework in this country. We've seen that time and time again. That does not constitute or justify the fact that you are shooting someone seven times in the back or killing them, at all. Anybody who thinks differently is no friend of mine."
Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
It’s the latest case of malfeasance from lawmakers who’ve rigged the system to make themselves immune from the will of the voters
Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
David Daley
September 1, 2020, 8:13 AM EDT·6 mins read
A Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot an unarmed black man seven times in the back. An armed teenage vigilante has been charged with five felonies for shooting three people, and killing two, at the ensuing protests. As marches continued, with armed white snipers observed on downtown Kenosha rooftops, the state’s governor called for a special session of the legislature on police violence and social justice.
When the Milwaukee Bucks sat out an NBA playoff game Wednesday, amid national protests after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back, the basketball team joined the call for their state legislature to reconvene and take action.
On Monday, Wisconsin’s state Senate and Assembly met. But it was more of a skeletal session than a special session. Both chambers gaveled in and out almost immediately. A television camera panned a gallery of empty mahogany chairs. By NBA standards, neither chamber stayed in session even the length of the 24-second shot clock. “Senators do not need to be present,” the Senate president’s chief of staff told reporters, “and no bills are being taken up.”
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature cannot be budged. Not by the governor. Not by the people. Not by vigilantes in the streets. Not by the Milwaukee Bucks. Wisconsin’s brutally gerrymandered state legislative maps — by almost every standard, the nation’s most biased — guarantee that they can’t even be budged at the ballot box. And so they remain an immovable and unaccountable force.
This is the very real damage to representative democracy done by gerrymandering. It’s hardly the first example here in Wisconsin, where citizens have so little control over their own representatives you can scarcely call it a democracy at all.
Tony Evers, the state’s Democratic governor, has twice before tried to call the legislature into special session. Twice before, the legislature sneered.
Last November, when Evers ordered a special session on background checks for guns — a measure supported by 80 percent of Wisconsin residents — both chambers convened, then immediately adjourned without debate. The assembly gaveled out after 15 seconds. The Senate remained in session twice that long: Approximately 30 seconds.
Then in April, as the pandemic raged across Wisconsin, Evers called another special session and asked to postpone a statewide election until mid-May and to do all voting by mail. The assembly took 17 seconds to adjourn without action. The Senate adjourned even faster and no Republicans even bothered to attend; they had the clerk call the session and then immediately ended it.
Ordinarily, elected representatives might think twice before stiff-arming legislation backed by 80 percent of the state, or fear the wrath of the people for forcing voters to cast ballots, in person, and risk catching Covid-19 simply by exercising their right to vote. Wisconsin’s legislature, however, has insulated themselves from any consequences — indeed, insulated themselves from the people and the ballot box — by the district lines they drew themselves during the 2011 decennial redistricting.
Republican operatives and savvy mapmakers barricaded themselves into a Madison law office, dubbed it the “map room,” claimed attorney-client privilege for their furtive work, required legislators to sign a non-disclosure agreement before even being shown their own new district, and designed fancy regression models that ensured Democrats would hold a minority of seats even they won up to 57 percent of the statewide vote.
The maps have exceeded their designers high expectations all decade long. In 2018, for example, Wisconsin voters re-elected a Democratic U.S. senator, backed Evers for governor over two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker, placed Democrats in every elected statewide office, and preferred Democratic assembly candidates by a margin of 190,000 votes. Republicans held the chamber, 64-35. They won 64 percent of the seats, with 46 percent of the votes.
How rigged are Wisconsin’s maps? So rigged that the Harvard’s Electoral Integrity Project, which quantifies the health of electoral systems in America and worldwide, rated the state’s electoral boundaries as a three on a scale of one to 100. This is not only the worst rating in the nation, it’s lower than any nation graded by the EIP has ever scored on this measure. This is not a rating received by a functioning democracy. It is the rating of an authoritarian state.
How little democracy exists in Wisconsin? If gerrymandering is the art of packing as many of the other party’s seats into as few districts as possible, then cracking the rest by spreading them thinly amongst the remaining seats, Wisconsin Republicans are a combination of Picasso, Monet, and Michelangelo. They packed Democratic voters into their districts with such ruthless efficiency that Republicans didn’t even bother contesting 30 of the Democratic winners. This purple state, often considered the Electoral College tipping point, has almost no competitive assembly seats. Only five of the 99 assembly seats were decided by fewer than five percentage points.
It begins with gerrymandering. It leads to this tyranny of an unaccountable minority. And it ends with an entire decade in which the people’s representatives in Wisconsin have placed themselves beyond the reach of the people.
Legislators can brazenly ignore the will of the people because they have gerrymandered the maps to ensure their legislative majorities survive, knowing that the maps render them bulletproof from facing consequences at the polls. The gerrymandered legislature then enacted one of the most restrictive voter-ID laws in the nation, which one study found could have deterred as many as 23,000 voters in the state’s two largest counties alone in 2016 from casting a ballot — more than the total number of votes by which Donald Trump carried the state. They forced voters to the polls during a pandemic. They loosened the state’s gun laws, then ignored the governor’s efforts to enact broadly popular gun control. And now, even with citizens in the streets and the unprecedented sight of the Bucks walking away from a playoff game, MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers boycotting play, and the NFL’s Green Bay Packers refusing to practice, the legislature remains unreachable.
Wisconsin has become a laboratory for enduring minority rule. Every legislative seat in the nation will be redrawn next year after the census. Your state might be next.
David Daley is the author of the national bestseller “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count” and “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.”
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Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
It’s the latest case of malfeasance from lawmakers who’ve rigged the system to make themselves immune from the will of the voterswww.yahoo.com
Wisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. Republicans Stopped It After 30 Seconds
David Daley
September 1, 2020, 8:13 AM EDT·6 mins read
A Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot an unarmed black man seven times in the back. An armed teenage vigilante has been charged with five felonies for shooting three people, and killing two, at the ensuing protests. As marches continued, with armed white snipers observed on downtown Kenosha rooftops, the state’s governor called for a special session of the legislature on police violence and social justice.
When the Milwaukee Bucks sat out an NBA playoff game Wednesday, amid national protests after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back, the basketball team joined the call for their state legislature to reconvene and take action.
On Monday, Wisconsin’s state Senate and Assembly met. But it was more of a skeletal session than a special session. Both chambers gaveled in and out almost immediately. A television camera panned a gallery of empty mahogany chairs. By NBA standards, neither chamber stayed in session even the length of the 24-second shot clock. “Senators do not need to be present,” the Senate president’s chief of staff told reporters, “and no bills are being taken up.”
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature cannot be budged. Not by the governor. Not by the people. Not by vigilantes in the streets. Not by the Milwaukee Bucks. Wisconsin’s brutally gerrymandered state legislative maps — by almost every standard, the nation’s most biased — guarantee that they can’t even be budged at the ballot box. And so they remain an immovable and unaccountable force.
This is the very real damage to representative democracy done by gerrymandering. It’s hardly the first example here in Wisconsin, where citizens have so little control over their own representatives you can scarcely call it a democracy at all.
Tony Evers, the state’s Democratic governor, has twice before tried to call the legislature into special session. Twice before, the legislature sneered.
Last November, when Evers ordered a special session on background checks for guns — a measure supported by 80 percent of Wisconsin residents — both chambers convened, then immediately adjourned without debate. The assembly gaveled out after 15 seconds. The Senate remained in session twice that long: Approximately 30 seconds.
Then in April, as the pandemic raged across Wisconsin, Evers called another special session and asked to postpone a statewide election until mid-May and to do all voting by mail. The assembly took 17 seconds to adjourn without action. The Senate adjourned even faster and no Republicans even bothered to attend; they had the clerk call the session and then immediately ended it.
Ordinarily, elected representatives might think twice before stiff-arming legislation backed by 80 percent of the state, or fear the wrath of the people for forcing voters to cast ballots, in person, and risk catching Covid-19 simply by exercising their right to vote. Wisconsin’s legislature, however, has insulated themselves from any consequences — indeed, insulated themselves from the people and the ballot box — by the district lines they drew themselves during the 2011 decennial redistricting.
Republican operatives and savvy mapmakers barricaded themselves into a Madison law office, dubbed it the “map room,” claimed attorney-client privilege for their furtive work, required legislators to sign a non-disclosure agreement before even being shown their own new district, and designed fancy regression models that ensured Democrats would hold a minority of seats even they won up to 57 percent of the statewide vote.
The maps have exceeded their designers high expectations all decade long. In 2018, for example, Wisconsin voters re-elected a Democratic U.S. senator, backed Evers for governor over two-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker, placed Democrats in every elected statewide office, and preferred Democratic assembly candidates by a margin of 190,000 votes. Republicans held the chamber, 64-35. They won 64 percent of the seats, with 46 percent of the votes.
How rigged are Wisconsin’s maps? So rigged that the Harvard’s Electoral Integrity Project, which quantifies the health of electoral systems in America and worldwide, rated the state’s electoral boundaries as a three on a scale of one to 100. This is not only the worst rating in the nation, it’s lower than any nation graded by the EIP has ever scored on this measure. This is not a rating received by a functioning democracy. It is the rating of an authoritarian state.
How little democracy exists in Wisconsin? If gerrymandering is the art of packing as many of the other party’s seats into as few districts as possible, then cracking the rest by spreading them thinly amongst the remaining seats, Wisconsin Republicans are a combination of Picasso, Monet, and Michelangelo. They packed Democratic voters into their districts with such ruthless efficiency that Republicans didn’t even bother contesting 30 of the Democratic winners. This purple state, often considered the Electoral College tipping point, has almost no competitive assembly seats. Only five of the 99 assembly seats were decided by fewer than five percentage points.
It begins with gerrymandering. It leads to this tyranny of an unaccountable minority. And it ends with an entire decade in which the people’s representatives in Wisconsin have placed themselves beyond the reach of the people.
Legislators can brazenly ignore the will of the people because they have gerrymandered the maps to ensure their legislative majorities survive, knowing that the maps render them bulletproof from facing consequences at the polls. The gerrymandered legislature then enacted one of the most restrictive voter-ID laws in the nation, which one study found could have deterred as many as 23,000 voters in the state’s two largest counties alone in 2016 from casting a ballot — more than the total number of votes by which Donald Trump carried the state. They forced voters to the polls during a pandemic. They loosened the state’s gun laws, then ignored the governor’s efforts to enact broadly popular gun control. And now, even with citizens in the streets and the unprecedented sight of the Bucks walking away from a playoff game, MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers boycotting play, and the NFL’s Green Bay Packers refusing to practice, the legislature remains unreachable.
Wisconsin has become a laboratory for enduring minority rule. Every legislative seat in the nation will be redrawn next year after the census. Your state might be next.
David Daley is the author of the national bestseller “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count” and “Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy.”
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Federal grand jury charges 3 men with hate crime, attempted kidnapping in Ahmaud Arbery shooting
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Federal grand jury charges 3 men with hate crime, attempted kidnapping in Ahmaud Arbery shooting
Arbery was killed while out for a jog in Georgia in February 2020.
Federal grand jury charges 3 men with hate crime, attempted kidnapping in Ahmaud Arbery shooting
Federal grand jury charges 3 men with hate crime, attempted kidnapping in Ahmaud Arbery shooting
Arbery was killed while out for a jog in Georgia in February 2020.
These three bitches will NEVER be free again and I LOVE IT!! They'd have to beat both the state and fed charges and both carry LIFE sentences......if not flat out, then by the numbers. Both the state and fed charges are serious as hell.
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Ex-Georgia prosecutor indicted on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery
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Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery death
A former Georgia prosecutor has been indicted on misconduct charges related to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
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Don't try to run from your "heritage" now, you inbred window lickers!
Ahmaud Arbery suspects seek to toss Confederate flag license plate from evidence
By Jesse O’Neill
October 6, 2021 | 11:51pm
The white men who allegedly chased down and killed jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year have asked a judge not to allow a photo of the Confederate vanity plate on their pickup truck to be included as evidence in their upcoming trial.
Lawyers for Gregory McMichael and his adult son Travis McMichael filed a motion last week to ban images of the license plate from the trial, because they do not want a jury to think the flag to invoke “some reprehensible motive, bias or prejudice.”
Prosecutors fired back with their own motion a day later, writing “the jury may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate, and the State may make reasonable inferences.”
The McMicheals and William Bryan are charged with murder, and jury selection at their state trial is slated to begin later this month. They also face federal hate crime charges.
It was unclear if the judge had ruled on the motio
The McMicheals allegedly trailed Arbery in their pickup truck for four minutes near Brunswick in February 2020. Bryan, a neighbor, allegedly followed behind taking cell phone footage, which showed Travis shooting the jogger at close range with a shotgun.
The suspects maintained that they chased after Arbery, 25, because they thought he was a burglar. Investigators found he did not commit any crimes and was not carrying a weapon as he exercised.
Prosecutors in the Ahmaud Arbery trial responded to the motion saying, the jury "may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate."
Prosecutors in the Ahmaud Arbery trial responded to the motion saying, the jury “may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate.”
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Travis allegedly called the Arbery a “f–king n—-r” after the murder and often used racial slurs in digital communications.
A former district attorney was charged with misconduct after she allegedly tried to shield the suspects from hate crime charges.
The three defendants remained free for months after the homicide until the cellphone footage finally emerged and the case was kicked up to Atlanta prosecutors amid public outrage.
Ahmaud Arbery suspects seek to toss Confederate flag license plate from evidence
By Jesse O’Neill
October 6, 2021 | 11:51pm
The white men who allegedly chased down and killed jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year have asked a judge not to allow a photo of the Confederate vanity plate on their pickup truck to be included as evidence in their upcoming trial.
Lawyers for Gregory McMichael and his adult son Travis McMichael filed a motion last week to ban images of the license plate from the trial, because they do not want a jury to think the flag to invoke “some reprehensible motive, bias or prejudice.”
Prosecutors fired back with their own motion a day later, writing “the jury may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate, and the State may make reasonable inferences.”
The McMicheals and William Bryan are charged with murder, and jury selection at their state trial is slated to begin later this month. They also face federal hate crime charges.
It was unclear if the judge had ruled on the motio
The McMicheals allegedly trailed Arbery in their pickup truck for four minutes near Brunswick in February 2020. Bryan, a neighbor, allegedly followed behind taking cell phone footage, which showed Travis shooting the jogger at close range with a shotgun.
The suspects maintained that they chased after Arbery, 25, because they thought he was a burglar. Investigators found he did not commit any crimes and was not carrying a weapon as he exercised.
Prosecutors in the Ahmaud Arbery trial responded to the motion saying, the jury "may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate."
Prosecutors in the Ahmaud Arbery trial responded to the motion saying, the jury “may interpret that evidence in any way they deem appropriate.”
Marcus Arbery/Handout via REUTERS
Travis allegedly called the Arbery a “f–king n—-r” after the murder and often used racial slurs in digital communications.
A former district attorney was charged with misconduct after she allegedly tried to shield the suspects from hate crime charges.
The three defendants remained free for months after the homicide until the cellphone footage finally emerged and the case was kicked up to Atlanta prosecutors amid public outrage.
Nah naaaah, you bought that and the flags you got in your mfkn house.....let that all that racist ass loser fuck shit in
Trial is today
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