A judge has denied a federal plea deal for one of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers after the Black man’s family begged the court to take his killers to trial and to not allow them to serve their sentences in a comfier federal prison.
Travis McMichael, 35, pleaded guilty on Monday afternoon to federal hate crimes charges that he violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because he was Black as part of a plea deal reached with federal prosecutors the day before.
