Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the father of Ahmaud Arbery, called for Georgia police to arrest the man who filmed Arbery being shot and killed.…
Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the father of Ahmaud Arbery, called for Georgia police to arrest the man who filmed Arbery being shot and killed.
More than two months after Arbery was shot dead while jogging in a neighborhood outside Brunswick, Georgia, police arrested two men, Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and charged them with murder and aggravated assault. Arbery was killed on February 23 after being chased by the two armed men in a pickup truck and getting into a fistfight.
Crump — who rose to fame for his involvement in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown‘s deaths — published two photos of the man who police say filmed the fatal incident, calling for his arrest.
“This is William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – who we believe may have been the third person in pursuit of #AhmaudArbery,” Crump wrote on social media. “If he chased down Ahmaud and filmed his execution, he should be arrested and charged with aiding and abetting them in committing this crime of murder.”
Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill wrote in an internal memo that Bryan recorded the deadly incident.
“The video made by William Bryan clearly shows the shooting in realtime,” Barnhill wrote to the Glynn County police department.
