A jury on Tuesday found the three white men sentenced to life for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery guilty of federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping.
Driving the news: Father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael, and their former neighbor William Bryan, chased Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, and killed him while he was running in a neighborhood just out Brunswick, Ga., nearly two years ago.
Prosecutors argued that “pent-up racial anger” motivated the men to chase down and shoot Arbery.
They presented nearly two dozen racist messages and social media posts, including Travis McMichael’s regular…
