Ahmaud Arbery’s mother has hit out at the Department of Justice and said she had to fight to see her son’s three murderers go to federal trial, after a jury returned a guilty verdict on all hate crimes charges.
Wanda Cooper-Jones told reporters that, while Tuesday’s conviction of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is a “victory”, federal prosecutors only did what “they were made to do” because the judge had rejected their plea deal.
