05-16-2020, 01:10 PM
(05-16-2020, 12:07 PM)Maggot Wrote: This is a weird case. Why would the suspects release a film of him being chased? I don't understand why the man was shot either, from the evidence so far. I would not be rummaging around a construction site myself but maybe he was just curious?
He wasn't rummaging. He didn't touch or take anything.
He just stopped there along the path of his jog for a few minutes, looked around (and may have had a drink water at a water source behind the site, which was reportedly not uncommon).
I think McMichael Sr. may have released the video because Arbery's mom had started to push for answers and there wasn't anything to back up the McMichaels' claim that there had been a string of burglaries in the neighborhood of which they suspected Arbery.
In the McMichaels' mindset and words of their attorneys, the fact that Arbery attempted to take away the shotgun with which Travis McMichael was threatening him once they cornered Arbery shows that they were standing their ground when they shot Arbery three times, killing him.
That's not how the stand-your-ground law works, but that's their claim.