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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3366002" data-attributes="member: 43724">I agree with your post until the very end. You clipped one short segment and formulated an opinion on it. The McMichaels chased Arbery down in their truck (and there had to be something going on before that otherwise the person who caught the video wouldn't have bothered recording it) and the video starts after they blocked the road and the younger McMichael got out, with a shotgun in hand. The thing of is that I have formed my opinion without considering the colors of all involved. The truth of matter is if the McMichaels had not chased him down, had not tried to detain him (at this point in time an illegal action) and done so while visibly armed, Arbery would be alive today. The only action of Arbery before this point that is tied to this is he walked into an unfinished house that had no doors, no locked gates, and so far nothing to show there was a no trespassing sign. So Arbery, by definition of law, had not committed trespass. Even IF he had, its only a misdemeanor, which does not allow for a C/A in Georgia. Anything before that in Arbery's past is moot. I agree that many instances like this are paraded on national tv to build on the supposed notion that most whites hate blacks. Yes, most of the police shootings we read and hear about were justified and yet we hear all the pundits go on and on about them. This is not like those events. Do I think the McMichaels set out that day to kill Arbery? No, I don't. I think they tried to do something they were not trained to do, and not legally allowed to do, and it resulted in Arbery's death.</blockquote>

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