The Georgia man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, whose killing in 2020 was among those that fuelled mass protests against racism and vigilantism in the United States, has been sentenced to life in prison by a federal court for committing hate crimes.US District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Travis McMichael, a 36-year-old white former US Coast Guard mechanic, in Brunswick, Georgia on Monday. McMichael had been convicted of murder in a state trial last year.He and his co-defendants – his father, 66-year-old Gregory McMichael, and their neighbour, William “Roddie” Bryan, 52 – were also found guilty of federal hate crime charges earlier this year.
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