Another debate on racism in the United States judiciary.

The video shows Ahmaud Arbery jogging in a quiet residential area. There’s a white truck on the street, one man at the wheel, another at the back of the cargo area. Arbery appears to want to surround the vehicle and briefly disappears from the image. You hear muffled calls, then the young man reappears in the field of vision: he’s shaking with the truck driver, who has a gun in his hand. The man behind is also armed. Several shots are fired, then Arbery collapses.

The two suspects are former police officer Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34. After the crime, they stated that they recognized a young African American man who had committed a robbery in his neighborhood. They followed him in the truck to confront him, but Arbery attacked Travis McMichael, shooting him.

Police records prove that the two had dialed 911 and reported that a suspicious man was nearby. When asked if he had done something prohibited, they had no response. Apparently an African American walking down the street was suspicious enough for her to take action.

In Georgia, suspected criminals can be detained until the proper authority arrives. The prosecutor in charge referred to this in his letter to the local police department published by the New York Times. Carrying weapons openly is permitted in Georgia. The prosecutor found the statement by the two men that they had acted in self-defense credible.

The video was known to investigators before it was released. The prosecutor had not seen any contradiction with the men’s representation and refrained from arrest. Then he had to drop the case due to prejudice. He knew Gregory McMichael professionally from his work as a researcher.

The case ended with prosecutor Tom Durden, who eventually brought the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). Because in the meantime, the leak of the disturbing video had made the public outcry louder and louder. At Friday’s GBI press conference, it was kept open if the creator of the video would also be arrested. The victim’s family attorney, Lee Merrit, believes he knew about McMichaels’ plan. He talks about hunting, lynching, and racially motivated justice.

Protests and criticism of structural racism.

By Friday, the day that Arbery would have celebrated his birthday, activists across the country have called for a 2.23-mile run in memory of the man killed; The distance is said to commemorate the date of death, February 23, let alone report the hashtag #IRunWithMaud. In Brunswick, citizens demonstrated in front of the court.

Protesters see police inaction as yet another case of structural racism in the American police and judicial system, which the Black Lives Matter movement has been criticizing for years.

Other known cases include the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson and that of Walter Scott in South Carolina. In both cases, police officers shot unarmed African Americans for no apparent reason. Although criminal proceedings were never initiated in the Michael Brown case, the murderer was convicted by Walter Scott. As in the current case, the crime scene videos sparked public outrage and protests. Because they showed that the whites shot the blacks, although obviously they did not represent any danger.

The Arbory ​​case has also sparked reactions in Washington. Democratic presidential nominee designate Joe Biden spoke on Twitter of a cold-blooded murder, while Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris wrote on Twitter that black sports should not be a death sentence. Donald Trump expressed his sympathy for the victim’s relatives.