One year has passed since Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, was shot and killed while jogging. But it took a viral video, released two months after his death, for authorities to launch an investigation...
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00:00I think we as a society need to fear how desensitized we may become when we hear of another Black
00:07man die today.
00:09We shouldn't have to have a video to launch an investigation about why a 25-year-old unarmed
00:15Black man was jogging and was murdered on a street.
00:21We shouldn't have to take a video.
00:48This is not law and order.
00:49This isn't some mystery.
00:52They admitted to doing it.
00:54They admitted to killing this young man.
00:57They admitted that he was unarmed.
00:59They admitted that they were the ones who tracked him down, confronted him with guns,
01:06and they admitted to shooting him.
01:09So I don't know any other place that this is going to happen except between when there
01:14are white parties and a Black man.
01:44They're claiming self-defense while they were trying to make a citizen's arrest to
01:57apprehend him.
01:59Now I don't know about you, but if there was a jogger running down my neighborhood
02:05and somebody in pickup trucks and a shotgun decided to run after them just to talk to
02:12them and this person ended up dead, I don't know how you can stay in that community.
02:17We are obviously protesting in the means of running because he ran for his life and he
02:27was killed, and we want to protest against injustice that's done in America against Blacks
02:32in America.
02:33Say his name.
02:34A murderer!
02:35Say his name.
02:36A murderer!
02:37It feels great to know that we have support for change and justice.
02:41It feels great.
02:42As you all know, on May 5th last year, a viral video shocked the world.
03:08The horrific killing of Ahmaud Arbery shook a Georgia community to its very core.
03:14And as I've said many times since that tragic day, people in every community across our
03:19state felt anger, disbelief, and a deep sorrow, but none more than Ahmaud's family and his
03:26loved ones.
03:28Ahmaud was a victim of vigilante style of violence that has no place in Georgia.
03:34And some tried to justify the actions of his killers by claiming they had the protection
03:39of an antiquated law that is ripe for abuse.
03:42That is why today my administration is introducing significant reforms to our state's citizen's
03:48arrest statute to close dangerous loopholes that could be used to justify future acts
03:54of vigilanteism.
04:04Mr. Brian said that after the shooting took place, before police arrival, while Mr. Arbery
04:20was on the ground, that he heard Travis Michael make the statement.
04:29I looked at the date and February 23rd is three days away from Trayvon Martin's murder.
04:36Something that happened in 2012.
04:39So eight years from what happened ago.
04:43Something that swept the nation and the world with how a young black man can be treated
04:48and killed in his own neighborhood.
04:52We're still dealing with that same problem now.
04:55And have had a series of events that have happened since.
04:59So this is nothing new.
05:01Black men have always been treated a certain way in America.