NBC reported:
Before the defense and prosecution rested their cases on Friday in the federal hate crime trial of the three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, the jury had heard several witnesses testify about racist and discriminatory remarks and rants two of the men had made.
Father and son, Greg and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan," chased Arbery, 25, through their coastal Georgia neighborhood in trucks after spotting him running by their homes in February 2020. The three men cornered Arbery, and Travis McMichael fatally shot him with a shotgun.
While all three men were convicted of murder in a state trial in November, the federal hate crime trial seeks to establish that their crime was motivated by racial bias. Prosecutors have focused on building a foundation to support their claim that Arbery's killing was the result of prejudices the men carried about Black people, a motive that prosecutors in the state trial largely avoided.
Earlier in the week, an FBI analyst who had combed through messages and social media posts from the men, testified about the racist slurs and views they had shared in the years before the murder.
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