Prosecutor: Arbery’s killers known to use racist slurs

By RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery had all expressed negative views toward Black people and used racist slurs in the past. A jury that includes three Black people heard opening statements in the federal hate crimes trial Monday shortly after being sworn in. Defense attorneys for father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, acknowledge their clients had used offensive racial language. But they insist evidence will show Arbery wasn’t pursued and fatally shot in a coastal Georgia neighborhood because he was Black. All three men received life sentences for murder in state court last month.