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Ahmaud Arbery’s killers: Motivated by race or vigilant defenders?

The killing of Arbery in 2020 fuelled racial justice protests across the United States [File: Marco Bello/Reuters]

The three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery chased down the young Black man and subsequently killed him because of “racial assumption”, a United States federal prosecutor has told jurors at the defendants’ hate-crimes trial.

Attorneys from the US Department of Justice stressed during closing arguments on Monday that the trio acted out of racial animosity when they pursued Arbery while he was jogging through their Georgia community.

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