February 23, 2020socialcivil rightshate crimescriminal justiceracial violencesocialcivil rightscriminal justice
White men kill Ahmaud Arbery while he runs in Georgia neighborhood
Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan pursue Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in trucks and confront him while he is running near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020. Travis McMichael shoots and kills Arbery during the confrontation. The killing initially does not lead to arrests, but public outrage grows after video of the shooting becomes public. State prosecutors later win murder convictions, and federal prosecutors win hate-crime convictions. The case becomes a national example of racially motivated vigilante violence and delayed accountability in local criminal justice systems.