Three Georgia men convicted in the murder of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery had their federal civil rights interference and attempted kidnapping convictions upheld Friday after a split federal appeals court ruled there was ample evidence to support them.
Arbery was shot and killed by three White men who followed him while he was running through a coastal Georgia suburb in February 2020. The men, William Bryan and Gregory and Travis McMichael, were sentenced to life in prison on state murder charges and were later convicted by a jury on the federal charges in 2022.
The three pursued Arbery in Georgia’s ...