BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday moved to buttress their hate crimes case over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by introducing more than two dozen racist messages and social media posts sent by the men convicted of his murder.
The evidence was presented through the testimony of FBI intelligence analyst Amy Vaughan, who read to the jury extracted messages taken from the cellphones of Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, who filmed the shooting.
It showed that Travis McMichael regularly referred to Black people as “savages” and “monkeys,” and often associated them with criminal activity in online posts and messages with friends.
