Ahmaud Arbery’s legacy filed a civil rights lawsuit against Georgia County, where he was murdered and a slew of law enforcement officers there on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of his murder.
The crux of the lawsuit is that officials illegally replaced the 25-year-old black man’s killers and concealed his death.
Arbery was on the street in Glynn County, Georgia, when three white men chased and fatally shot him; Travis McMichael, accused of firing the deadly shot, allegedly used a racist slur while standing over his body.
The three men charged with murder in the murder – Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryant – are also named as suspects in Tuesday’s trial. All three pleaded not guilty to murder.
The lawsuit alleges that Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson, also named in the lawsuit, knew Gregory McMichael personally – a former agent and investigator in that office – and intervened to stop agents from arresting the trio after Arbery’s death.
The lawsuit further alleges that the McMichaels and Bryan, who are civilians, were unlawfully deported by Glynn County police to guard the construction site Arbery had seen before his murder.
While Gregory McMichael was an investigator in Johnson’s office, the lawsuit continues, she personally intervened to restore his powers to make arrests without undergoing the necessary training.
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