Three white men sentenced to life in jail for killing Black American jogger
Three white men convicted of chasing down Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in their pickup trucks and killing him in the US state of Georgia were sentenced to life in prison Friday in a case that highlighted national tensions over racial justice.
Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were sentenced to life without parole, while their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, who had a less direct role in the murder and cooperated with investigators, was given life with the possibility of parole.
They were all convicted of multiple counts of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment in November for the February 2020 shooting of 25-year-old Arbery.
The trial was driven by graphic video of the armed men following Arbery as he ran through their neighborhood, suspecting with no evidence that he might have been a burglar.
Travis McMichael, left, speaks with his attorney Bob Rubin, right, during the sentencing of him and his father Greg McMichael and neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan. Photo: AFP
The video, taken by Bryan, 52, shows Arbery trying to avoid them and then Travis McMichael, 35, eventually confronting and shooting him with a shotgun.
The video was...