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Ahmaud Arbery: Father and Son Charged with Murder of US Black Jogger.

A father and son have been arrested and charged in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man.Gregory McMichael, aged 64, and Travis McMichael, aged 34, were detained on Thursday by the state bureau of investigation.

Both were charged with murder and aggravated assault, investigators said in a statement.Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when he was confronted by the pair.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced late on Thursday that both men had been taken into custody. The bureau said the father and son followed Mr Arbery and confronted him with two firearms, and the younger McMichael shot and killed him.

For more than two months, police did not charge the McMichaels, who are white, until the shooting gained widespread attention in the national media and provoked outrage.

How did Arbery die?

Mr Arbery was out running in the coastal city of Brunswick early in the afternoon of 23 February. Gregory McMichael told police he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins.

Mr McMichael and his son armed themselves with a pistol and a shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pick-up truck. Gregory McMichael told police he and his son said “stop, stop, we want to talk to you” and claims Mr Arbery then attacked his son.

Video footage of the incident appears to show Travis McMichael firing a shotgun at point blank range at Mr Arbery and the victim falling to the street, in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood.

In another horrific incident of racial discrimination, three policemen were recorded on camera murdering a black man, George Floyd, as he pleaded for life. A Minneapolis officer knelt on the neck of the man, thought to be in his forties, as he lay handcuffed and pleaded, “Your knee in my neck. I can’t breathe… Mama. Mama” while bystanders recorded the scene on their cameras. The cops even taunted, “get up and get in the car” as Floyd slowly grew silent and finally motionless.

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At the unbelievably young age of 75 Raymond Hewett is our inhouse sage on relevant political issues covering all aspects of Current News affair, Commentary History and Gardening. A deep delving correspondent who provides an unvarnished and searing analysis into issues that challenges the status quo.

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