This is NOT a political story. This is NOT a racially motivated post.

I believe there are laws in some states of our country that are being misappropriated that I believe need to be revisited, reviewed and amended.

Ahmaud Arbery may not be a name you are familiar with. I wasn’t either til this past week.

On February 23,2020, Ahmaud Arbery an unarmed 25 year old African American man was jogging along a road in Satilla Shores, a community in unincorporated Glynn County, when he was confronted by two armed caucasian men (father and son) in a pickup truck; the confrontation ended with Arbery being shot dead.

Georgia’s Citizen’s Arrest Law:

Allows citizens to arrest anyone that they’ve witnessed committing a crime in their presence or has immediate knowledge of the crime, although attorneys around the state of Georgia say that wasn’t the case in Ahmaud Arbery’s death.

The problem I have here is not that the men didn’t have the right to make a citizens arrest according to the laws of the state, but they broke the law.

And that day to my knowledge neither men were picked up or questioned about the incident.

In this case the law simply wasn’t followed which states citizens are allowed; “to arrest anyone that they’ve WITNESSED committing a crime IN THEIR PRESENCE or has IMMEDIATE knowledge of the crime”.

Mr Arbery was jogging unarmed pursued and killed. This incident happened in February earlier this year however, only after public outcry as a result of a video of the incident, the two men were finally apprehended a few days ago.

In following this story the man who killed this 25 year old young man said he believed the young runner, resembled someone he thought committed a crime.

I read where this young man wasn’t an angel. It was stated Mr Arbery bought a gun to a High School basketball game and was indicted when he was 19 years old. He also was said to have been caught shoplifting.

I don’t know when or even if it any of this was true.

On that fateful day in February, Mr Arbery was doing neither. He wasn’t killed for shoplifting, he wasn’t killed because he was armed and threatening. He was killed for another reason.

It was said the young man was seen earlier going through a construction site of a home that was being built or renovated. The owner of the home said no crime was committed.

The attorneys for the prosecution are seeking for this case to classified as a hate crime.

I know that there will be attorneys for the defense that will paint these men to be good citizens and they were just protecting the community and got it wrong about this young man. Maybe they were good citizens, maybe they believed they were protecting the community.

What happened to picking up the mobile phone instead of a gun? Why weren’t the police called, they are trained to make arrest.

But a “citizen’s arrest” wasn’t what this father and son team had in mind. They were on the prowl, no need to call police for this situation, because the objective was clear… provoke, and kill, not provoke and arrest.

This young man couldn’t have outrun a truck, this young man couldn’t have outrun a bullet.

Ahmaud Arbery died in cold blood.

His only crime that day was running down a street and coming within the sight lines of two men posing as community protectors, ready to administer law according to their own twisted minds.

As I said in my preamble to this post: “I believe there are laws in some states of our country that are being misappropriated that I believe need to be revisited, reviewed and amended.”

Now would be a great time to look at the laws in unincorporated Glynn County, that would be a great place to begin.

anablepsis.