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Is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Ready to Investigate Arbery Cover-Up?

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2020 by Jayson Hawkins published in Criminal Legal News November, 2020, page 44
Filed under: News, News in Brief. Location: Georgia.

by Jayson Hawkins

The murder of Ahmaud Arbery was shockingly mishandled by local police from the very beginning. Two White men chased down and shot a young Black man, and yet they had not been charged two months later, despite the fact that the whole event was caught on tape. ...

 

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