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Courtesy of the Arbery Family Both prosecutors and defense attorneys raised the argument of self-defense in the opening arguments of the trial of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan, the three men charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in a Brunswick, Georgia neighborhood. For prosecutor Linda Dunikoski, the facts are clear: it was Arbery who was defending his life by reaching for a shotgun wielded by Travis McMichael after he was chased and pursued through the winding streets of the Satilla Shores neighborhood. The prosecutor, Linda Dunikoski, said that the men had “assumed the worst” about Mr. Arbery but had no “immediate knowledge” of him committing a crime when they decided to chase him in their trucks through their neighborhood. “A very wise person once said, ‘Don’t assume the worst of another person’s intentions until you actually know what’s going on with them,’ ” Ms. Dunikoski told the 12-person jury, of which 11 are white and one is Black. But, she said, “all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions. Not on facts, not on evidence — on assumptions. And they made decisions in their driveways based on those assumptions that took a young man’s life. And that is why we’re here.” Both prosecution and defense referenced items stolen from a nearby home under construction, with attorneys for the McMichaels arguing that the father and son had every reason to believe that the man seen on video in the home was the person responsible for the theft of items from the neighborhood, and so they began to pursue Arbery in order to make a lawful citizen’s arrest. Ms. Dunikoski also described in detail how the two McMichaels and the third defendant, their neighbor William Bryan, chased Mr. Arbery for five minutes as he ran through their neighborhood, trying to evade them — the McMichaels in one pickup truck and Mr. Bryan in another. She said that in the midst of the chase, Travis McMichael stopped and asked Mr. Arbery, “Where you running from? What are you doing?” Mr. Arbery ignored him. […]
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