Nearly all-White jury picked for trial in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, over prosecution’s protests
By Margaret Coker and Hannah Knowles
Yesterday at 10:19 p.m. EDT
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — An overwhelmingly White jury will weigh murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after the defense struck 11 out of 12 Black people from the final pool for a nationally watched case in which race looms large.
Prosecutors alleged racial discrimination Wednesday in jury selection, formally challenging eight of the defense picks. But the judge rejected the prosecutors’ argument, saying the defense gave sufficient reasons other than race for their choices.
Black people made up a quarter of the finalist jurors; the jury ultimately included one Black man and 11 White people.
The clash came in the final hours of the more than two-week-long jury-selection process in the trial of three White men accused of racially profiling a Black jogger in February 2020. Arbery was chased by the men in trucks and fatally shot in the coastal community of Satilla Shores near Brunswick. The case — which went months without arrests before a leaked video kindled national outrage — helped fuel historic racial justice protests ignited by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/03/ahmaud-arbery-trial-jury-race/
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