Gregory McMichael Suspended From Police For Missing Firearms Trainings Prior To Ahmaud Arbery Killing

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Gregory McMichael Suspended From Police For Missing Firearms Trainings Prior To Ahmaud Arbery Killing

Georgia ex-cop Gregory McMichael, the man responsible for killing Ahmaud Arbery, lost his police certification a year prior to the shooting after he failed to complete a mandatory use-of-force and firearms training course.

The Washington Post reports that Gregory McMichael, 64, was a former Glynn County officer and investigator for the Brunswick district attorney’s office. He had been suspended one year before the shooting for failing to complete training from 2005 and 2010, “failure to maintain training for the year 2018.” He also had another suspension while he was working as an investigator in the prosecutor’s office. The reason was undisclosed.

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Gregory and his son Travis were arrested on criminal charges last week, over two months after Arbery was shot dead.

As we reported, Attorney General Chris Carr is investigating prosecutors who shut down the case, including McMichael’s former boss Jackie Johnson.

“This situation has been a great embarrassment to me and to investigator McMichael,” Johnson wrote back in 2004.

The active DA at the time, Glynn County, Georgia DA George Barnhill Sr. also sent a five-point letter to police arguing why the two suspects in the Ahmaud Arbery murder should not be charged; in it, he called the shooting a “justifiable homicide.”

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