Attorney For Greg McMichael Raises Eyebrows After Commenting Ahmaud Arbery “In His Khaki Shorts, With No Socks, To Cover His Long Dirty Toenails”
Socialites, get into this: In the closing arguments of the trial of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, defense attorney for Greg McMichael suggested that Ahmaud Arbery’s actions were also to blame for his death.
While speaking this Monday, Laura Hogue said he wasn’t “an innocent victim,” but rather a “recurring nighttime intruder.”: “Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made, does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts, with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails,” Hogue said. She then told the jury that Arbery would still be alive if he had not run away from Travis McMichael, McMichael’s father Greg, and William “Roddie” Bryan on February 23, 2020, when the three white men confronted him in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia: “There were two sets of decision-makers on February 23. It is not just the McMichael’s decisions that led to this tragedy,” she told the jury.
“Sadly, no verdict can change the grief of that future not realized. The hope that he could have turned himself around because all we can guess about the young man is that his teenage years would be full of promise but his early twenties just led him in the wrong direction,” Hogue said. According to activist Shaun King, “Ahmaud’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, rushed out of the courtroom, saying “I’ve gotta get out of here” nearly tripping and falling, when the defense attorneys for the men who murdered her son, began literally talking about Ahmaud having “long dirty toenails,” he tweeted.
As we previously reported, the McMichaels and Bryan have been charged with nine criminal counts, including felony murder. The three men are accused of using their pickup trucks to chase and gun down Arbery before fatally shooting him with a shotgun.
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