Ahmaud Arbery Family Attorney Calls for Thorough Probe of Fatal Shooting

(May 11) The investigation continues now that Gregory and Travis McMichael have been booked into the Glynn County Jail in the Feb. 23 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, and Reynolds said "every stone will be uncovered."

But in response to a question about racial intent in the shooting, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said "there is no hate crime in Georgia. There isn't. It is one of four or five states that doesn't have one."

But family attorney for Ahmaud Arbery says the situation would have been different if a white man was shot.

"And so, we want the Georgia Bureau of Investigators to investigate the entire case from top to bottom. And why people did not do their jobs as if you put the shoe another foot. Why didn't we have equal justice and due process for the benefit of Ahmaud Arbery like you would have had if it was a young white man laying dead on the ground," he said Friday speaking to the Associated Press.

The McMichaels told police they pursued Arbery, with another person recording them on video, after spotting him running in their neighborhood.

The father and son said they thought he matched the appearance of a burglary suspect recorded on a surveillance camera.

"All you have to do is watch the video and then show probable cause. And that's what we were so outraged about because the police officers on day one who saw that video should have made arrest than, but because of the relationships they had with Greg McMichaels, one of their former colleagues, a detective in the D.A.'s office and a former police officer. They either intentionally looked the other way or it was just incompetence," Crump said.

Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she thinks her son, a former football player, was just jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood before he was killed on a Sunday afternoon.

National outrage over the case swelled this week after the cellphone video was leaked and shared on social media.

Hundreds gathered to protest in Brunswick, Georgia on Friday as well.

Crump asked the protesters to be safe and maintain social distancing.

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