The vigilante-style killing of the 25-year-old Arbery sparked national outrage about racial profiling weeks before George Floyd’s death.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has said the state will do “whatever is necessary to keep the peace” as the three men charged in the vigilante-style killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, on Feb. 23 will have their first in-person court hearing in the case on Thursday morning.
Outrage over Arbery’s killing has spilled over into protests following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, ignoring pleas from the subdued Floyd saying that he couldn’t breathe.
