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Title: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: mystery-ak on May 21, 2020, 11:16:18 pm
Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
by Anthony Leonardi
 | May 21, 2020 07:09 PM



The man who filmed a 25-year-old black man being shot in Georgia was charged with murder by the state.

William "Roddie" Bryan Jr., 50, was charged and arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on felony counts of murder and criminal attempt of false imprisonment for filming an incident that showed Ahmaud Arbery being shot in a street. Bryan Jr. will reportedly be booked into the Glynn County jail.

Should Bryan Jr. be convicted for the criminal charges against him, he would be eligible for the death penalty under Georgia law.

CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo interviewed Bryan Jr. and his lawyer Kevin Gough following the incident, but Bryan Jr. could not answer many substantive questions related to the case.

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Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 21, 2020, 11:50:41 pm
A rather strange development. 
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: goatprairie on May 22, 2020, 05:30:42 pm
This is where the state is overreaching.
Bryan simply filmed the incident. How can he be guilty of murder? I don't even think it's murder...most likely manslaughter.
I sincerely doubt  Bryan thought he  was going to be filming a killing. He probably thought the two dopes were just going to stop Arbery and wait for the cops.
I wouldn't be surprised if the judge (assuming he's not corrupt) throws the Bryan case out of court.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: aligncare on May 22, 2020, 05:52:50 pm
This is where the state is overreaching.
Bryan simply filmed the incident. How can he be guilty of murder? I don't even think it's murder...most likely manslaughter.
I sincerely doubt  Bryan thought he  was going to be filming a killing. He probably thought the two dopes were just going to stop Arbery and wait for the cops.
I wouldn't be surprised if the judge (assuming he's not corrupt) throws the Bryan case out of court.

You hit the nail on the head.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 22, 2020, 05:59:40 pm
This is where the state is overreaching.
Bryan simply filmed the incident. How can he be guilty of murder? I don't even think it's murder...most likely manslaughter.
I sincerely doubt  Bryan thought he  was going to be filming a killing. He probably thought the two dopes were just going to stop Arbery and wait for the cops.
I wouldn't be surprised if the judge (assuming he's not corrupt) throws the Bryan case out of court.

And you know any of that how?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 22, 2020, 06:05:39 pm
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William "Roddie" Bryan Jr., 50, was charged and arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on felony counts of murder and criminal attempt of false imprisonment for filming an incident that showed Ahmaud Arbery being shot in a street.


He was charged with murder for filming a shooting where someone ELSE is presumed to have murdered a man?

HTH is this even possible?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 22, 2020, 06:06:15 pm
A rather strange development.

@Cyber Liberty

Yeah,that's one way of putting it.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: aligncare on May 22, 2020, 06:09:08 pm

He was charged with murder for filming a shooting where someone ELSE is presumed to have murdered a man?

HTH is this even possible?

Racial entitlement. That’s how.

If all involved were white, or all involved were black, we wouldn’t have even heard about this incident on a national level.

I’m gonna revise that: If all involved were black we wouldn’t have heard about it nationally. With whites we probably would have.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 06:10:49 pm
And you know any of that how?

We know even less about this development than we do about the shooting, and that's not very much.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: mystery-ak on May 22, 2020, 06:16:56 pm
We know even less about this development than we do about the shooting, and that's not very much.

Well that's the thing..I can't find any article where it is explained why he is charged with murder... :tongue2:
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 06:30:14 pm
Well that's the thing..I can't find any article where it is explained why he is charged with murder... :tongue2:

I couldn't either.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 22, 2020, 06:31:26 pm
We know even less about this development than we do about the shooting, and that's not very much.

Yep. Who knows what really happened. We'll have to wait see what the investigation reveals.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Neverdul on May 22, 2020, 06:31:52 pm
He didn’t simply film it as an unexpected bystander. He participated in the pursuit and used his vehicle 'on multiple occasions' to block Arbery according to the GBI.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 22, 2020, 06:33:54 pm
Well that's the thing..I can't find any article where it is explained why he is charged with murder... :tongue2:

My guess is, and that is all it is, is that's there's phone/text records of the three communicating with each other on some plan to confront Arbery and video it.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: mystery-ak on May 22, 2020, 06:34:44 pm
He didn’t simply film it as an unexpected bystander. He participated in the pursuit and used his vehicle 'on multiple occasions' to block Arbery according to the GBI.

Oh...I see...thanks for the info
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Hoodat on May 22, 2020, 06:40:46 pm

He was charged with murder for filming a shooting where someone ELSE is presumed to have murdered a man?

HTH is this even possible?

They may be doing this to persuade him to testify against the others.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 22, 2020, 07:38:48 pm
They may be doing this to persuade him to testify against the others.

@Hoodat

I honestly thought he was already doing that.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 07:56:50 pm
They may be doing this to persuade him to testify against the others.

He would have had to have something to do with the guys in the pickup truck (e.g. "Accessory" or "Conspiracy"), and I think Murder is an overcharge, even if he was involved in the Conspiracy.  That said, in AZ of one is found Guilty of a Conspiracy, then one can be charged with all the crimes attached to it. 
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: goatprairie on May 22, 2020, 09:31:44 pm
And you know any of that how?
What do I know for sure? What do WE!!! know for sure. Let's look.
We have a dead, unarmed,  black person, Arbery, who was shot by one of the armed white persons, the McMichaels.
We have a person who filmed the event, Bryan.
From statements allegedly taken from the two white persons, they were attempting to make a citizens arrest.
Things went awry. The person they stopped tried to grab one of the white person's guns and was shot and killed. Some of the event was caught on video by Bryan.
The white persons had no authority to stop Arbery. They were not leos, and they had not witnessed Arbery committing a crime.
How's that for what we know?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 09:39:08 pm
What do I know for sure? What do WE!!! know for sure. Let's look.
We have a dead, unarmed,  black person, Arbery, who was shot by one of the armed white persons, the McMichaels.
We have a person who filmed the event, Bryan.
From statements allegedly taken from the two white persons, they were attempting to make a citizens arrest.
Things went awry. The person they stopped tried to grab one of the white person's guns and was shot and killed. Some of the event was caught on video by Bryan.
The white persons had no authority to stop Arbery. They were not leos, and they had not witnessed Arbery committing a crime.
How's that for what we know?

Sounds like you "know" just enough to assume guilt.  Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were also "unarmed."  it didn't stop either from beating on, then trying to disarm their intended victims.

I hope you don't plan on sitting on a Jury any time soon.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: goatprairie on May 22, 2020, 09:46:54 pm
Sounds like you "know" just enough to assume guilt.  Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were also "unarmed."  it didn't stop either from beating on, then trying to disarm their intended victims.

I hope you don't plan on sitting on a Jury any time soon.
Both Martin and Brown deserved their fate.
Arbery didn't.
If you believe  armed people who aren't leos can stop people and try to make a citizen's arrest because they, the people they stopped, looked like  criminals, what do you think that might lead to?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 22, 2020, 09:56:11 pm
He didn’t simply film it as an unexpected bystander. He participated in the pursuit and used his vehicle 'on multiple occasions' to block Arbery according to the GBI.
That makes him an active participant, not just a bystander filming.
Like a getaway driver for an armed robbery can be charged with murder if one of the robbers shoots and kills the convenience store clerk.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 10:12:52 pm
Both Martin and Brown deserved their fate.
Arbery didn't.
If you believe  armed people who aren't leos can stop people and try to make a citizen's arrest because they, the people they stopped, looked like  criminals, what do you think that might lead to?

So, you just "know."  I got it.  I remember conversations with a Briefer who just "knew" Roy Moore was a perv.  That person never got over it either.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 10:14:05 pm
That makes him an active participant, not just a bystander filming.
Like a getaway driver for an armed robbery can be charged with murder if one of the robbers shoots and kills the convenience store clerk.

Yes, that would be a clause of Conspiracy, just like the driver of a getaway car is responsible if a Murder happens in the course of the robbery.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Sighlass on May 22, 2020, 11:25:59 pm
I know if I ever go on a murder rampage, when it goes down I most certainly will be on the line with 911 at the time it occurs and consorting with the folks doing said murder...... /sarcasm

Good grief, it was simple a few good neighbors doing their best to help the police keep their neighborhood crime free... You know, I know it, and most of the rest of America know it... instead it becomes a tool of the left to strip away any vestige of freedom of Americans to respond to crime.

Hey Teacher, leave them Kids alone.... /Pink Floyd
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 22, 2020, 11:43:15 pm
I know if I ever go on a murder rampage, when it goes down I most certainly will be on the line with 911 at the time it occurs and consorting with the folks doing said murder...... /sarcasm

Good grief, it was simple a few good neighbors doing their best to help the police keep their neighborhood crime free... You know, I know it, and most of the rest of America know it... instead it becomes a tool of the left to strip away any vestige of freedom of Americans to respond to crime.

Hey Teacher, leave them Kids alone.... /Pink Floyd

You do not have the right on a public street to hunt and demand that someone else comply with your orders at gun point. Especially someone that has not been directly witnessed to have committed a serious crime. They may have had good intentions but they far exceeded their authority in their apparent actions.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 22, 2020, 11:46:57 pm
I know if I ever go on a murder rampage, when it goes down I most certainly will be on the line with 911 at the time it occurs and consorting with the folks doing said murder...... /sarcasm

Good grief, it was simple a few good neighbors doing their best to help the police keep their neighborhood crime free... You know, I know it, and most of the rest of America know it... instead it becomes a tool of the left to strip away any vestige of freedom of Americans to respond to crime.

Hey Teacher, leave them Kids alone.... /Pink Floyd
We do have rules. 
First off, if you are close enough with a long gun for the alleged perpetrator to grab the gun, you are far too close.  Second, the very best place to attempt such an apprehension is the scene of the crime, QED, you got them there where they aren't supposed to be.
Third, less than lethal might be the way to go--there should be more than one person armed, in that instance, one with lethal.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2020, 11:56:45 pm
We do have rules. 
First off, if you are close enough with a long gun for the alleged perpetrator to grab the gun, you are far too close. 

THIS!!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't carry a long gun, but I assure you, if it looks like trouble, nobody gets within six feet of me carrying my pistol.  My #1 concern when things go south is, never let them get the gun.  First, they'll kill me and worse, they'll go on to kill innocent people.

The guy trying to grab the shotgun dies from Felony Stupid.  These fellows may get done for Murder, but at the moment of contact they were defending themselves, and as importantly, the gun.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 23, 2020, 12:33:24 am
Both Martin and Brown deserved their fate.
Arbery didn't.
If you believe  armed people who aren't leos can stop people and try to make a citizen's arrest because they, the people they stopped, looked like  criminals, what do you think that might lead to?

@goatprarie

Ok,let's suppose you are wandering around,pondering the great questions of the world like "With fries or without fries",and suddenly you hear a woman screaming for help,and then spot her running with someone chasing her.

Are you willing to go to prison to save her by pulling your gun on the guy chasing her,and making a "citizens arrest" by holding him until the cops show up?

Enquiring minds,and all dat.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 23, 2020, 12:36:20 am
I know if I ever go on a murder rampage, when it goes down I most certainly will be on the line with 911 at the time it occurs and consorting with the folks doing said murder...... /sarcasm

Quote
Good grief, it was simple a few good neighbors doing their best to help the police keep their neighborhood crime free... You know, I know it, and most of the rest of America know it... instead it becomes a tool of the left to strip away any vestige of freedom of Americans to respond to crime.

Hey Teacher, leave them Kids alone.... /Pink Floyd

@Sighlass

But.....,but.....,but...,he is a member of the Master Race that must NOT be questioned,you racist!
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 23, 2020, 12:48:35 am
THIS!!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't carry a long gun, but I assure you, if it looks like trouble, nobody gets within six feet of me carrying my pistol.  My #1 concern when things go south is, never let them get the gun.  First, they'll kill me and worse, they'll go on to kill innocent people.

The guy trying to grab the shotgun dies from Felony Stupid.  These fellows may get done for Murder, but at the moment of contact they were defending themselves, and as importantly, the gun.

It is claimed the gun was fired prior to the struggle for it. It was fired multiple times. Once the gun has been fired at you you can either run or try to gain control of it. When they are clearly willing to fire at you you are in a fight for your life. From the reported accounts it was the people hunting him that are responsible for creating the dangerous situation.

What would any of us do with two yahoos chasing you with guns down a public street?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 23, 2020, 01:00:15 am
@goatprarie

Ok,let's suppose you are wandering around,pondering the great questions of the world like "With fries or without fries",and suddenly you hear a woman screaming for help,and then spot her running with someone chasing her.

Are you willing to go to prison to save her by pulling your gun on the guy chasing her,and making a "citizens arrest" by holding him until the cops show up?

Enquiring minds,and all dat.

You have some evidence of a possible ongoing crime by what you are witnessing. And if he's still chasing the woman while you chase him she is still in potential danger.

None of that applies in this case, at least with the reported details so far.

No one was in any danger short of the person being chased by others with weapons drawn on a public street. There has been no claim that the person being chased threatened anyone prior to their hunting him.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 01:01:31 am
It is claimed the gun was fired prior to the struggle for it. It was fired multiple times. Once the gun has been fired at you you can either run or try to gain control of it. When they are clearly willing to fire at you you are in a fight for your life. From the reported accounts it was the people hunting him that are responsible for creating the dangerous situation.

What would any of us do with two yahoos chasing you with guns down a public street?

If that was true, then the runner was more stupid than I first thought.  WTH grabs the muzzle of a gun that HAS JUST BEEN FIRED?
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 23, 2020, 01:03:40 am
It is claimed the gun was fired prior to the struggle for it. It was fired multiple times. Once the gun has been fired at you you can either run or try to gain control of it. When they are clearly willing to fire at you you are in a fight for your life. From the reported accounts it was the people hunting him that are responsible for creating the dangerous situation.

What would any of us do with two yahoos chasing you with guns down a public street?

@DB

I can't speak for anyone else,but if I am unarmed (ROFLMAO!) and the people who have been chasing me haven't shot at me or shot up in the air or anywhere else,and done nothing more than try to force me to stop,I am going to stop and wait for the police to show up and sort things out.

UNLESS,of course,I WAS up to something and I already have warrants out on me and may have skipped bail.

I wonder why nobody at the coat howze wants to talk about his criminal record,other than some sort of vague reference to "minor mumble,mumble,mumble"?

IF THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SHOOTING AT YOU,AND THEY TELL YOU TO STOP BECAUSE THEY ARE CALLING THE POLICE OR THAT THE POLICE ARE COMING,AND YOU ATTACK ONE OF THEM AND TRY TO TAKE HIS GUN AWAY,YOU NEED TO BE SHOT FOR BEING "FELONY STOOPID".
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Victoria33 on May 23, 2020, 01:11:13 am
@Cyber Liberty
@sneakypete

I followed this from the beginning.  Cuomo had a number of them on his show at different times, the family members of the black man, plus the lawyers for the family and he also had on the man who made the video along with his attorney.

Here is what happened:  this young black man was jogging down the middle of the street.  The truck came up to him and he kept jogging, did not try to leave the road get away from them.  Then, one man with a rifle/shotgun/whatever, came up to him and the black man tried to turn the gun away from him/tried to get the weapon.  A man in the back of the truck had a hand gun and shot him from there.  I don't know if shots from the shotgun hit him, too.  They killed him.  One of the men, the one in the back of the truck, had been a policeman in that area but was not one now.

When the man who shot the video was on the program, his attorney did most of the talking.  There was a reason for that.  Attorney told Cuomo the man had not had "much education."  He was telling Cuomo by saying that, the man is mentally retarded.  Look for  "mentally challenged" to be the reason he should not be convicted of murder if he was involved in it.

When Cuomo spoke to the man after his attorney said that, Cuomo was gentle, said to him it didn't matter about his education, that he did the right thing by filming what happened.  The man spoke, saying he just saw something happening and used his camera. His attorney said he was only a witness.

I don't know what has happened now to accuse this man of murder.  Maybe Cuomo will revisit this on his show.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 01:18:35 am
@Victoria33

With all due respect, I would never take the word of angry "loved ones" about what happened with their precious child.  These are the people who always tell us he's an "aspiring Hip-Hop artist who's taking college classes, and turning his life around."

Fredo is a total sucker for these fish stories.  In fact, he's a total sucker, period.  Did you catch his latest show of "The Fabulous Cuomo Brothers," were they laffed and laffed about Andy's COVID test with the giant Q-Tip?  I just about laughed myself to death, thinking about the dead Nursing Home patients.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Victoria33 on May 23, 2020, 02:09:09 am
@Victoria33
With all due respect, I would never take the word of angry "loved ones" about what happened with their precious child.  These are the people who always tell us he's an "aspiring Hip-Hop artist who's taking college classes, and turning his life around."
@Cyber Liberty

With all due respect, I don't even believe you are a moderator.  For all I know, you hang around here because your wife has you locked in a room with your computer so you have no where to go except here. wink777

Back to it: The only way to know about a case is to listen to the people involved in it.  It would be ridiculous to believe any one of them at the beginning, but you start some where.  As more came forward, I learned more.  Cuomo grilled every one of them to get information.

So, I just heard/saw him speak this evening to an attorney who knows about this case and talk about the new arrest of the film guy for felony/murder.  What happened is, there was a short film of the prosecutor who said they have more film than what has been shown to the public and due to that film, they arrested film guy. Neither Cuomo nor the attorney know where this is going now.

An aside:  I love you Cyber - maybe I will adopt you as my child so I can train you to just mix the drinks and shut up.   :amen:
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: DB on May 23, 2020, 02:26:50 am
@DB

I can't speak for anyone else,but if I am unarmed (ROFLMAO!) and the people who have been chasing me haven't shot at me or shot up in the air or anywhere else,and done nothing more than try to force me to stop,I am going to stop and wait for the police to show up and sort things out.

UNLESS,of course,I WAS up to something and I already have warrants out on me and may have skipped bail.

I wonder why nobody at the coat howze wants to talk about his criminal record,other than some sort of vague reference to "minor mumble,mumble,mumble"?

IF THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SHOOTING AT YOU,AND THEY TELL YOU TO STOP BECAUSE THEY ARE CALLING THE POLICE OR THAT THE POLICE ARE COMING,AND YOU ATTACK ONE OF THEM AND TRY TO TAKE HIS GUN AWAY,YOU NEED TO BE SHOT FOR BEING "FELONY STOOPID".

You have no right to stop someone on a public street by force of arms short of defending yourself or defending others that are in immediate danger. No one was in danger until these guys decided to overstep their authority. And like I said earlier, it has been reported that there was at least one shot fired before the struggle for the gun. We'll have to wait and see if that was accurate. If someone is shooting at you and you have not done anything to threaten them physically you have every right to do whatever it takes to defend yourself. The line has been crossed.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 02:29:51 am
@Cyber Liberty

With all due respect, I don't even believe you are a moderator.  For all I know, you hang around here because your wife has you locked in a room with your computer so you have no where to go except here. wink777

Back to it: The only way to know about a case is to listen to the people involved in it.  It would be ridiculous to believe any one of them at the beginning, but you start some where.  As more came forward, I learned more.  Cuomo grilled every one of them to get information.

So, I just heard/saw him speak this evening to an attorney who knows about this case and talk about the new arrest of the film guy for felony/murder.  What happened is, there was a short film of the prosecutor who said they have more film than what has been shown to the public and due to that film, they arrested film guy. Neither Cuomo nor the attorney know where this is going now.

An aside:  I love you Cyber - maybe I will adopt you as my child so I can train you to just mix the drinks and shut up.   :amen:

Ya got me!  Busted!  I have been chained down here in the Castle.  It's gilded, but still a cage...we had plans to stay at a freshly reopened Hotel in Laughlin tonight, but they're still closed by order of the Nevada Gaming Commission.  :shrug:

Here's my bottom line on this case, honest injun:  I think the guys who shot him, and the camera dude, are probably going down for Murder because they blew by a whole lot of the stop signs, and broke the laws.  That said, this fellow would probably not have been shot had he not made a stupid play for the shotgun, but that's just how I see it as a person who packs heat every day.  That makes it more of a tragedy than a simple event.  Stupid should hurt, but I draw that ling before killing.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: truth_seeker on May 23, 2020, 03:21:16 am
Nothing reported by property owner to be missing.

No stolen goods on deceased's person.

Property owner's attorney stated owner did not ask accused to do anything.


Deceased was unarmed, Guilty of black, jogging in khaki shorts.

Sentence death.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: catfish1957 on May 23, 2020, 03:41:54 am


Here's my bottom line on this case, honest injun:  I think the guys who shot him, and the camera dude, are probably going down for Murder because they blew by a whole lot of the stop signs, and broke the laws.  That said, this fellow would probably not have been shot had he not made a stupid play for the shotgun, but that's just how I see it as a person who packs heat every day.  That makes it more of a tragedy than a simple event.  Stupid should hurt, but I draw that ling before killing.

What makes me the angriest is the left saying that this comparable to the Michael Brown and Trayvon shootings, which were both justified. 

This one?   Not even close.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 03:59:27 am
What makes me the angriest is the left saying that this comparable to the Michael Brown and Trayvon shootings, which were both justified. 

This one?   Not even close.

It does not appear to be.  The hand-to-hand part about grabbing the gun, maybe, but these fellows had to have been looking for this particular flavor of trouble, trying to detain somebody.  Completely avoidable, and that's probably where it breaks down. 

When we learn to carry, we learn to stay away from those things, and not run into them.  These guys are the cowboys giving us all a bad name.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 23, 2020, 04:02:07 am
It does not appear to be.  The hand-to-hand part about grabbing the gun, maybe, but these fellows had to have been looking for this particular flavor of trouble, trying to detain somebody.  Completely avoidable, and that's probably where it breaks down. 

When we learn to carry, we learn to stay away from those things, and not run into them.  These guys are the cowboys giving us all a bad name.
Well that shotgun wasn't a CCW weapon anyway.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 04:18:24 am
Well that shotgun wasn't a CCW weapon anyway.

LOL.  Nope.  The "Stay out of trouble!" rule still holds.....
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Sighlass on May 23, 2020, 06:50:09 am
Well that shotgun wasn't a CCW weapon anyway.

Most Southern States allow one to carry a loaded long gun in their vehicle and open carry of a long gun is legal. You are correct... CCW plays no part of this.

According to wiki...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Georgia
There are a number of ways a firearm can be carried without a permit.[1][9] No permit is needed:

    To carry a firearm in a person's home, place of business, or vehicle
    To carry a long gun in a fully open and exposed manner
    To carry an unloaded firearm in a case
    To carry a firearm in someone else's vehicle, provided you would qualify for a permit
    To carry a firearm while fishing or hunting, if you have a valid fishing or hunting license

The fellow did not banish the gun (point at jogger) until attacked as far as we can tell.

The jogger had a hammer (who jogs with a hammer), but unless you are a felon both (shotgun/long rifle) are equally legal to open carry.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: goatprairie on May 23, 2020, 02:14:07 pm
He didn’t simply film it as an unexpected bystander. He participated in the pursuit and used his vehicle 'on multiple occasions' to block Arbery according to the GBI.
Thanks for the info. If that's true, he is guilty too. Not of murder but for either manslaughter, malicious intent, or something related. As I'm not a lawyer, I don't really know what he could be charged with. But I doubt he or they are guilty of murder. Acting stupidly resulting in the death of an innocent person I guess.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: goatprairie on May 23, 2020, 02:18:26 pm
So, you just "know."  I got it.  I remember conversations with a Briefer who just "knew" Roy Moore was a perv.  That person never got over it either.
Answer me this...do you think people who aren't leos, while being armed, can stop anybody they feel like and question them about a crime they hadn't witnessed? And try to detain them until the police arrive?

Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 02:27:57 pm
Thanks for the info. If that's true, he is guilty too. Not of murder but for either manslaughter, malicious intent, or something related. As I'm not a lawyer, I don't really know what he could be charged with. But I doubt he or they are guilty of murder. Acting stupidly resulting in the death of an innocent person I guess.

If the cameraman acted in concert with the two pickup guys, then he'll get whatever they do.  Their chasing after him will figure heavily into a determination of premeditation, so they could all be done for First Degree Murder.  A co-conspirator is legally responsible for the illegal acts of that conspiracy.  It's the same thing as charging the driver of a getaway car with the bank robbery for which he was driving.

A side note:  I've come to the conclusion that they did not have to try to detain the decedent, and that means they won't be able to claim self-defense.  The hand-to-hand altercation was the immediate cause of death, and it would not have happened had they exercised better judgement in trying to detain the individual in the first place.  It appears they did not meet the necessary tests required for it to have been a "citizen's arrest."

This is all subject to the production of new information.  If it turns out the fellow shooting the video was in on it, that is a very large black mark on their story.  They had a conspiracy, and illegal acts in support of that conspiracy were committed so the test for that is satisfied. 
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 02:31:18 pm
Answer me this...do you think people who aren't leos, while being armed, can stop anybody they feel like and question them about a crime they hadn't witnessed? And try to detain them until the police arrive?

I've come to the conclusion they did not have the grounds to arrest him, because it appears they did not see him do anything.  And you are correct if you say the standard for a citizen's arrest is not the same for a non-LEO as it is for a cop.  While one used to be LEO, he was not at the time of the altercation.  That said, being a former LEO a reasonable person could conclude he had full knowledge what he was doing in trying to detain the decedent was illegal.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: sneakypete on May 23, 2020, 02:34:41 pm
Answer me this...do you think people who aren't leos, while being armed, can stop anybody they feel like and question them about a crime they hadn't witnessed? And try to detain them until the police arrive?

@goatprairie

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Kinda a BullBush question,and you HAVE to know this and are allowing your emotions to get in the way.

There are TWO answers to that question,"Yes",and "No".

Depends on the location,the circumstances,and the demeanor of the person being stopped.

For example,ever heard of "Neighborhood Watches?

How about "self-defense" in cases where you LEGALLY try to detain someone suspicious until the police show up?

Aggression in the defense of others from criminal assault?

Self-defense?

ANY of these ringing a bell?

And,YES,they DID have a right to stop and question someone acting suspiciously that is running through their neighborhood that is unknown to them. They even have the right to make a "citizen's arrest" if they are 100 percent convinced the guy is committing or fleeing from a felony,but that one is scary as hell and you had BETTER be 100 percent in the right and be able to prove it or you will be facing a huge lawsuit. ESPECIALLY if it is a minority.



Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: aligncare on May 23, 2020, 03:10:16 pm
If the cameraman acted in concert with the two pickup guys, then he'll get whatever they do.  Their chasing after him will figure heavily into a determination of premeditation, so they could all be done for First Degree Murder.  A co-conspirator is legally responsible for the illegal acts of that conspiracy.  It's the same thing as charging the driver of a getaway car with the bank robbery for which he was driving.

A side note:  I've come to the conclusion that they did not have to try to detain the decedent, and that means they won't be able to claim self-defense.  The hand-to-hand altercation was the immediate cause of death, and it would not have happened had they exercised better judgement in trying to detain the individual in the first place.  It appears they did not meet the necessary tests required for it to have been a "citizen's arrest."

This is all subject to the production of new information.  If it turns out the fellow shooting the video was in on it, that is a very large black mark on their story.  They had a conspiracy, and illegal acts in support of that conspiracy were committed so the test for that is satisfied.

Very persuasive arguments.  Helped clear my reasoning a bit on this.
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2020, 03:31:52 pm
Very persuasive arguments.  Helped clear my reasoning a bit on this.

I forgot the obligatory "IANAL," so that's what it's worth.   rrthree
Title: Re: Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested and charged with murder
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 24, 2020, 05:01:12 am
Most Southern States allow one to carry a loaded long gun in their vehicle and open carry of a long gun is legal. You are correct... CCW plays no part of this.

According to wiki...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Georgia
There are a number of ways a firearm can be carried without a permit.[1][9] No permit is needed:

    To carry a firearm in a person's home, place of business, or vehicle
    To carry a long gun in a fully open and exposed manner
    To carry an unloaded firearm in a case
    To carry a firearm in someone else's vehicle, provided you would qualify for a permit
    To carry a firearm while fishing or hunting, if you have a valid fishing or hunting license

The fellow did not banish the gun (point at jogger) until attacked as far as we can tell.

The jogger had a hammer (who jogs with a hammer), but unless you are a felon both (shotgun/long rifle) are equally legal to open carry.
I think the word your autocorrect may have been looking for is "brandish".

Something hinky is going on there, one way or the other. Have the break ins stopped? Is there any physical evidence to tie the deceased to the break-ins?
This is the first I have seen about a hammer, but I have known people who routinely carried a hammer, one lady in her purse.