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We “Won” the McMichaels-Bryan Case, But Here's Why That's Just Not Enough.

The men who gunned down 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder, but that does not change the fact that an innocent man lost his life, and his mother is still left to grieve.

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Kendi King
Nov 30, 2021
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery, Wanda Cooper-Jones, & Attorney Lee Merritt. (Photograph by Jame Gilbert / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock)

My mother cried all week. 

The McMichales and William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, the three white men who chased down 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in a pickup truck and gunned him down in cold blood, were convicted of murder. 

The day the verdict was…

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