Has there ever been a situation where vigilantly whites killed an unarmed black man and you felt the charges appropriate?
I'm old-fashioned: I believe that someone charged with a murder should plausibly have been a participant in one.
Ummmm what? If the guy with the camera was with them he's part of the "posse" and is just as liable as the car driver who sits outside a bank while his buddies inside rob the bank. I'm assuming that evidence has shown that the cameraman wasn't just walking down the street and was a witness but was an active participant with the other two.
If he was there with them as a cameraman and they are charged with felony murder, then he is too isn't he?
Yeah that’s what I assume too. These three guys went to “detain” Arbery together. That he didn’t pull his gun on Arbery, or didn’t try to physically restrain him, doesn’t matter.
Emmett Till off the top of my head. Don't recall if the James Byrd case was "vigilantism" per se, but if so, that's another.
Makes sense. Early on I think the McMichaels said that he was the one who instigated going after Arbery (or that was some bad early reporting).
His friends probably talked way too much and got him busted. Or maybe he answered too many questions and got himself busted. My thought is the police are trying to strong arm him to testify against the other two to secure some evidence of premeditation because he knows something about what they said beforehand.
good call! And I'm guessing the GBI/DOJ/Barney fucking Fife could pull information in about five minutes out of any of the dim bulbs involved in the killing! I'm guessing a free trip to Waffle House would have any of them confessing to blowing up the Hindeburg.
It wasn't a lynching. I wish people would stop calling it that. It was a murder. Now with that out of the way...... The facts are pretty consistent with it not being self defense. Do you know something you want to share with us?