Pursuing the Wrong Narrative?

I fear the media might be hyping the "innocent black jogger" angle a bit too non-neutrally, which might backfire on the prosecution of the case on public media, once it reaches the courts.

The point isn't that an innocent black man was gunned down. The point is the other two -- or three -- men should not have been pursuing a suspect with weapons.

From my reading, the aunt of the deceased Ahmaud Arbery identified her nephew as being present in a house under construction in the Satilla Shores neighborhood on the Sunday of his death. There apparently is surveillance camera footage existing that no doubt will be introduced into evidence.

Will the narrative fall if it turns out the victim might have been trespassing, or casing or burglarizing houses under construction? Don't "innocent" looky-see's in adjacent neighborhoods always come afterhours to take a look around, and workers learn to lock up tools that can be taken with them, and secure the site as best they can, for this reason?

Officially, the national papers are proud to report, only one burglary had been reported to the police department during preceding months. But, if cameras have captured images of the victim -- and I'm not saying they have; just warning about the dangers of preenting this as a "black man out jogging" open-and-shut case -- in the neighborhood previously, not running but on property not his own, this will be introduced in court.

Focus on the issue:
Americans have no right to take up guns and go after "suspects" in their vehicles in America. Period.

The crucial moment on the 9-11 call appears to be the elder McMichael, charged with murder, urging his son to hurry up, so they could take after the black man running down the street who allegedly matched the description of a non-emergency call coming in to the police at the same time about a potential trespasser spotted inside a home under construction. Some news reports have said the aunt of the victim who viewed the tape identified this man as her nephew. (How did he support himself? 25-years-old is a bit long in the tooth to be primarily identified as a former high-school football star.)

There's no death sentence for trespassing in America, no right for anyone to play judge and juror on the side of a road.

But we all have seen the tape, and know where this is likely going...
If the defense attorneys can convince one local juror that the potential suspect (and that is how he will be identified if it holds up, not as just a black jogger...) had the option to do anything but charge the gunman with his body, there's a good chance some would hold the victim was shot in "self defense".

= He got shot grabbing for the gun...

The focus should be on why the guns were brought along for the ride -- the McMichael "boy" looks plenty big enough to protect himself and his father. No doubt evidence will be introduced about the gun previously reported stolen from an unlocked truck in the neighborhood, and the fear the running suspect (not just a black jogger) might be armed...

I wouldn't want to be surrounded, I wouldn't want my child to be surrounded, by vigilante justice even if in the wrong. Call a cop. They are trained in takedowns, even if reality doesn't always go as simply as training.

When the decision was made to bring along the guns -- and it certainly sounds like you can hear cocking on the tape taken from inside the vehicle on the scene -- the scene was set. Deadly force or self defense?

The father who egged his son into the pursuit, "C'mon Travis, let's go!" was an instigator, and the big-boy son -- an overfed mouth-breather who didn't have the common-sense to close his mouth for his mugshot -- was guilty for being too weak to stand up to his father, leave his guns at home, learn to lock his doors and buy cameras if needed, and work with law enforcement, not supplant them.

"Don't take the law into your own hands...
You take 'em to court!"

Now the courts in Georgia, in Glynn County -- a lush coastal paradise it seems, if you factor in all the living, non-human things -- instead will be asked to sort out murderous actions, to cull the fictions from the facts, to clean up after the gunshots have ended and the big men have gone -- to jail, to lifetime notoriety, to the cemetery.

You can't go home again in Satilla Shores.