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I don't care about all that. I'm not litigating that. I'm pointing out one of the things that was so confusing about this trial, early on, was how it was presented as a convicted case by the media before the facts were out, and there was a lot of confusing, conflicting information provided to the public in those first weeks. Even now, it's hard to ascertain exactly what the discourse was between neighbors concerning all of that in the many months prior to Arbery's murder.On the day he was murdered all the mcmicheals saw was him run past their house. Well only the father saw that. Travis was inside with his son where he should have stayed.
The McMichaels were convicted of murder, and it was the appropriate charge once all the evidence was uncovered. This was met relatively early in the trial which is when I stopped following it closely.
But those who present Arbery as some dough-eyed innocent boy merit eye rolls. "He was just curious"-- like he was some 7 year old boy. "He was just a jogger". Who didn't jog. He was a career criminal. He had a history of robbing sites just like this among other repeated crimes. This has been posted in the thread. And what is a behavior of robbers who do this? They repeatedly revisit sites they have already victimized.
I don't sympathize with their malicious mindset, and that was demonstrated early in the trial with the text messaging. However, I do understand why property owners are irritated by types like Arbery encroaching on their neighborhoods. And I don't care that he's dead. Nothing of value was lost.