“If you can count to 12 and only get to one that's Black, you know something's wrong.” “It's an insult to the intelligence of the American people,” Sharpton said. Some of the longest running high school football rivalries in the country are right here in Connecticut, many of which are played on Thanksgiving. The county where the trial is being held is nearly 27% Black. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley allowed the jury to be sworn in last week after prosecutors objected, saying several Black potential jurors were excluded because of their race, leaving only one Black juror on the panel of 12. Sharpton criticized the disproportionately white makeup of the jury. Al Sharpton spoke with reporters Wednesday outside the Glynn County courthouse, where he held the hands of Arbery's parents while leading a prayer for justice. He added: “I think inactive was a fair summary.” “It was still open but not getting much traction,” Lowrey said. But Lowrey said he hadn’t closed the case when the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took it over in May. Glynn County police made no arrests in Arbery’s shooting. “No, that wasn’t the way I interpreted it at the time,” said Lowrey, who agreed that local police considered Bryan a witness to the shooting. Might have took him out and not get him shot.”īryan’s attorney, Kevin Gough, asked the investigator if he thought Bryan committed aggravated assault or any other “serious violent felony” with his truck. “I didn’t hit him,” Bryan said, according to an interview transcript Lowrey read in court. Bryan said Arbery had tried to open the door, but he denied striking the running man. He said police found Arbery’s fingerprints by the truck's driver-side door, next to a dent in the body. He told police he didn’t recognize any of them, or know what prompted the chase, but still joined in after calling out: “Y’all got him?”īryan said he used his truck several times to cut off Arbery and edge him off the road, testified Stephan Lowrey, the lead Glynn County police investigator on the case. Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski has described him as an “avid runner” who lived about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Satilla Shores neighborhood where he was slain.īryan, 52, was on his front porch when he saw Arbery run past with the McMichaels’ truck close behind. Prosecutors say the McMichaels and Bryan chased Arbery for five minutes before he was shot in the street after running past the McMichaels' idling truck.
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