A white man who chased Armor Berry, a 25-year-old black jogger in the suburbs of Georgia, and shot deadlyWas sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for committing a federal hate crime.
Travis McMichael's federal life imprisonment is on top of anotherlife imprisonmentissued by the Georgia State Court earlier this year.
McMichael is one of three defendants convicted of the murder of Arbury. The judgment of McMichael's father Greg McMichael and his neighbor William "Rodi" Brian is scheduled for late Monday.
Three menwere convicted ofin February for federal hate crimes.
On February 23, 2020, after passing a house in Brunswick, Georgia, McMichael's picked up his gun and jumped on a pickup truck to chase after Arberry.
Brian joined the chase on his truck and filmed his subsequent encounter with Arbury on his cell phone — when young McMichael fired a shotgun at Jogger at close range. Includes.
McMichaels' lawyer claimed that the man was trying to influence the arrest of civilians and believed that Arbery was responsible for the alleged robbery from a nearby construction site.
Arbury was not armed. He is black and the three defendants are white. Arbury's father called the murder a modern-day Lynch.
US District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood said Monday that McMichael's had a "fair trial" in contrast to the victims.
"The kind of trial that Armor Arbury didn't receive before he was shot dead hasn't been lost in court," she said.
All three defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Georgia court earlier this year, and only Brian could be released on parole. Given the sex.
With post wire
