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Twelve jurors and four alternates were selected. Of the 16 members, one was a black man, three were white men, and 12 were white women. The defense struck 11 of 12 prospective black jurors, the defense leaving the one black man from the qualified panel, while the prosecution used all 12 of its allotted strikes on white potential jurors.
Arbery, 25, was chased and gunned down by two white men, who said they believed he was a burglar, while jogging through Brunswick, Georgia on Feb. 23. Celebrities express outrage over shooting ...
Three white men arrested last month in the slaying of a Black man who was gunned down as he jogged through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia four months ago were indicted on Wednesday on murder ...
“I don’t think I’ll ever be in a mental state where I can actually watch the video."
Police attempted to arrest Rudolph for stealing a van. Two officers shot and killed Rudolph after the van got stuck in an alleyway, saying they believed Rudolph was going to run them over. The two officers were given awards for the shooting, leading Mayor David L. Armstrong to fire Police Chief Gene Sherrard the next day. [102] June 3, 1999
At 11:20 a.m. the next day, a 23-year-old white man was taken into custody in Bloomington. [24] [26] [27] A 32-year-old Hispanic man was arrested in Minneapolis, but was later released after it was determined he was not at the scene of the shooting. [26] At 2:30 p.m., two white men, ages 21 and 26, turned themselves in to police.
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Brewer and King were the first white men to be sentenced to death for killing a black person in the history of modern Texas. [3] In 2001, Byrd's lynching -by-dragging led the state of Texas to pass a hate crimes law, which later led the United States Congress to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. [ 4 ]