Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by three white racists because of the color of his skin, and would be alive today if he wasn't black, a federal hate crimes trial heard Monday.
'At the end of the day, the evidence will prove that if Ahmaud Arbery had been white, he would have gone for a jog, checked out a cool house and made it home for supper,' Bobbi Bernstein, deputy chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, said in front of 12 jurors in opening statements of the awaited federal hate crimes trial of Arbery's killers Gregory McMichael, 66, his son Travis, 36, and their friend William 'Roddie' Bryan Jr, 52.
The trio were previously convicted of Arbery's February 2020 murder at a Georgia country court, with federal jurors tasked with deciding whether they also violated their victim's civil rights by targeting him because of his skin color.
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