BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The Rev. John Perry II remembers crying the first time he saw the video.
A young Black man was man shot dead in the street after running from three white men who chased him in pickup trucks. For Perry, then president of the Brunswick NAACP, the shaky cellphone footage of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder conjured up images of the South’s ugly past.
“I cried immediately because I felt sorry for him,” said Perry, who serves as senior pastor of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church just a few exits south on I-95. “Ahmaud Arbery was running for his life. He was trying to escape. And those men chased him down.”
