General Thoughts on Georgia shooting?

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Oct 24, 2015
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As best I can tell this is the reality so far.

People arguing that they have a right to open carry is a moot point.

No evidence that the citizens arrest was legal. Their own statement suggests that it is illegal.
It is their own claim that they were attempting a citizen's arrest. they were not just standing by watching with open carry. Instead they were open carrying while attempting to detain somebody illegally.

Arbery moves to the right side of a vehicle. To claim that he initiated the confrontation against the gunman who is attempting an illegal detainment requires a significant amount of ignoring that again this was an illegal detainment attempt in the first place. Maybe some new information will come out but first explanations of motivations on the day of the the events seem like they would be most accurate.

If you remove the citizens arrest (motive that came from their own statements) and state that they were simply defending themselves with legal open carry while attempting a passive standing in public to have a conversation...(are you seeing how many things you have to ignore to get to that?) then you are left with the shotgun man moving from his side of the vehicle to confront arbery and arbery moving from the right side of the vehicle to confront the gunman...after arbery moves to Right side of the vehicle in order to avoid the gunman standing in his path. So even if you remove the citizens arrest aspect that seems very suspect with the current evidence, you have video of an unarmed man attempting to avoid an armed man. You have an armed man and an unarmed man then come into contact with each other at best due to both of their approaches. The background context added back includes an illegal detainment and an attempt by the unarmed man to avoid confrontation with the armed man.

I just don't see a jury siding with some sort of stand your ground defense when the armed man approached as well. If he had stood there in arbery ran straight forward, that argument would be in play. Same with arbery moving from right back to left with No other movement by the gunman. But once the gunman circled around the front of the vehicle, he is surely as guilty (more due to the previous attempt by unarmed man to avoid conflict???) in escalating the violence that lead to a death.

I think redneck Batman and Robin are screwed
 
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All you have to do is find me a statement from the father or son on the day of the events showing they were aware of this.

you keep adding extra details that are not in the police report or any statement so far.

They saw him running down the street and he was on video in the past. That's the evidence so far.
Most info is being withheld. So that's a unreasonable request.

Mcmichaels said they were in the front yard. Look at the street map. Its 3 or so yards away from the 911 caller and unoccupied dwelling. They were standing outside. The guy who filmed the shooting was also aware of something happening. Prove I'm wrong

Also what's you definition of "immediate knowledge"
 

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Most info is being withheld. So that's a unreasonable request.
It's not. We should be developing an evolving opinion on what's KNOWN.
If you want to add stuff that isn't there, at least state that it's an IF XXXXX. Just sliding it back and forth together is a type of misinformation.

We have some knowns. We have some pending info. Just separate them so the thread is built on facts and then we can at least argue the reality.

Or you can post some more "boots"

 

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Video of the shooting:

This is the best video so far and the person recording seems to take focus off the guy running and switches to the object on the ground. I could be wrong about him throwing it but it's potentionally a big piece of evidence...

Police Report:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthe...52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1


DA Memo recusing himself from case and his opinons:

Georgia Law on Citizens Arest:
2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 4 - ARREST OF PERSONS
ARTICLE 4 - ARREST BY PRIVATE PERSONS
§ 17-4-60 - Grounds for arrest

O.C.G.A. 17-4-60 (2010)
17-4-60. Grounds for arrest


A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.
Call from neighbor that someone has entered construction site:
Footage from construction site:
Previous footage from construction site:

Map that matches police report and video.
Google Maps

google maps location of the construction site
 

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How many of us have went into homes under construction? I'm not asking to persuade my opinion of this case. I'm asking because people in these videos act like it's a common thing that millions of people do. I'm genuinely curious if this is something that happens frequently. I had a pretty checkered upbringing and have broken my share of laws. I have never considered going into someone's home, occupied or unoccupied.
 
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Video of the shooting:



Police Report:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthe...52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1


DA Memo recusing himself from case and his opinons:



Georgia Law on Citizens Arest:


Call from neighbor that someone has entered construction site:


Footage from construction site:


Previous footage from construction site:



Map that matches police report and video.
Hes dead because he was a thief. When they get found not guilty of murder I'm gonna have a huge party. I'll invite you dont worry
 

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How many of us have went into homes under construction? I'm not asking to persuade my opinion of this case. I'm asking because people in these videos act like it's a common thing that millions of people do. I'm genuinely curious if this is something that happens frequently. I had a pretty checkered upbringing and have broken my share of laws. I have never considered going into someone's home, occupied or unoccupied.
Yep, happens all the time. I mentioned in this thread I'd find people checking out my house while it was being built all the time. It's a common occurance.
 
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You're conflating your ethical position with a legal one again.
That's my personal opinion I was just sharing to you. Not meant to be a part of the legal discussions.

I cant say how I really feel because I assume I would violate terms of service.
 

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In the end doesn't it boil down to who started the violence?

The black guy shouldn't have been in the house and was most likely a local thief.
The white guys had not business pursuing him and trying to detain
How many of us have went into homes under construction? I'm not asking to persuade my opinion of this case. I'm asking because people in these videos act like it's a common thing that millions of people do. I'm genuinely curious if this is something that happens frequently. I had a pretty checkered upbringing and have broken my share of laws. I have never considered going into someone's home, occupied or unoccupied.

When our home was under construction we would go check the progress most weeks.
Only once did we find someone there.
A white trash couple going through the dumpster looking for copper. Not even sure how they got past the gate.
When they saw us walk up they walked to their car and said have a nice day.
I called the cops and they let them off with a warning.

I would have liked the opportunity to shoot them, but I didn't want their meth blood in my soil.
Poor people are so disgusting, they should be illegal.



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How many of us have went into homes under construction? I'm not asking to persuade my opinion of this case. I'm asking because people in these videos act like it's a common thing that millions of people do. I'm genuinely curious if this is something that happens frequently. I had a pretty checkered upbringing and have broken my share of laws. I have never considered going into someone's home, occupied or unoccupied.
The only time I've ever seen anyone do this, they were stopped by a cop (who happened to live directly across the street, lol).
 
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The Feb. 11 confrontation

According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, however, the property owner may have alerted another neighbor, Diego Perez, that someone was in his property Feb. 11. English lives about 90 miles away from the neighborhood, but had motion-sensor cameras installed that pinged his phone when there was someone on the property, according to Perez. Perez armed himself and walked up the road that night to check on the house, where he encountered Travis McMichael in his truck, he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Travis was alerted to the Feb. 11 incident. A phone number wasn’t publicly listed for Perez, and he did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Attorneys for Arbery’s family also didn’t immediately respond to a VICE News request for comment, either.

“Travis saw him in the yard and Travis stopped,” Perez told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He confronted (the man) halfway into the yard. He said (the man) reached for his waistband, and Travis got spooked and went down the road.”

Travis left and came back with his father, who apparently called the Glynn County Police Department that night, according to Perez. A police report from around 7 p.m. that night showed that a man called local police about a man roaming around a home under construction. The caller is identified in the report as Travis McMichael, and the police says that English had an "ongoing issue with an unknown black male continually trespassing upon the property." Police called English, who told them he believed the man hadn't taken anything, and was only trespassing.

Videos and descriptions of the man, who at the time wasn't known to residents, circulated on a neighborhood Facebook page and on the website Nextdoor, according to the police report.

Perez did not see Arbery again until Feb. 23, when he bled out in the middle of the road from the gunshot wounds. He’s listed as a witness on a police report from that day, which notes the McMichaels claimed they saw Arbery “the other night” with his “hand down his pants, which led them to believe the male was armed.” He wasn’t.

An attorney for English, the owner of the property, did not immediately respond to a VICE News request for comment. Elizabeth Graddy, who represents English, has said that his motion-sensor camera alerted him to potential entries at the under-construction property numerous times, leading him to once call a non-emergency police line. However, Graddy told NBC News, English never used the word “burglary,” as nothing had ever been stolen from the property.