Atlanta’s mayor on Sunday called the shooting death of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery “a lynching” — and tried to point the finger at the president.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms condemned Arbery’s Feb. 23 shooting death by two white men in Georgia on CNN’s “State of the Union” which made nation-wide news following the release of a cell phone video of the incident, Fox News reported.
“It’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African-American man. My heart goes out to the family,” the Democratic mayor said.
“With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House, many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”
President Trump, speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Friday, called Arbery’s death “a heartbreaking thing” and called the video “disturbing.”
“I looked at a picture of that young man,” Trump said, according to Fox. “I will say that he looks like a really good young guy.”
Ex-cop Gregory McMichael, 64, and his 34-year-old son, Travis, were charged with murder last week by state prosecutors, weeks after Arbery’s death.
The video shows a pickup truck driven my McMichael cut off Arbery as he jogs by. Travis McMichael then exits the truck with a shotgun and confronts Arbery. The two struggle over the weapons, and Arbery is shot and staggers away briefly before falling mortally wounded.
The McMichaels told police they believed Arbery was a burglar.
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms condemned Arbery’s Feb. 23 shooting death by two white men in Georgia on CNN’s “State of the Union” which made nation-wide news following the release of a cell phone video of the incident, Fox News reported.
“It’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African-American man. My heart goes out to the family,” the Democratic mayor said.
“With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House, many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”
President Trump, speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Friday, called Arbery’s death “a heartbreaking thing” and called the video “disturbing.”
“I looked at a picture of that young man,” Trump said, according to Fox. “I will say that he looks like a really good young guy.”
Ex-cop Gregory McMichael, 64, and his 34-year-old son, Travis, were charged with murder last week by state prosecutors, weeks after Arbery’s death.
The video shows a pickup truck driven my McMichael cut off Arbery as he jogs by. Travis McMichael then exits the truck with a shotgun and confronts Arbery. The two struggle over the weapons, and Arbery is shot and staggers away briefly before falling mortally wounded.
The McMichaels told police they believed Arbery was a burglar.
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