University of Connecticut Associate Professor of Psychiatry Wizdom Powell shares why race is a big discussion in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial, and how we can make progress for the Black community.
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Somehow the facts are being unstated. Ahmaud tried to take gun away from Travis Mcmichel. Ahmaud was prowling around t he neighborhood late at night. Ahmaud had been told to stay out of that neighborhood. Ahmaud had been listening to this very rhetoric and somehow felt he should challenge Travis in an act of aggression. It's as if Ahmaud felt there is a place in heaven for people acting out what he thought was a noble cause. If his parents really loved him they would have kept him some place where he could have been watched closer.
What in the hell does color have to do with anything. Black, white or purple. The only thing that matters is that 3-men shot and killed a 4th male. Period. Color is irrelevant!
Nobody cares about BLM communities..already dead to us
I won't say these lames are innocent cause they just look ignorant..3 men for one black guy? Weak and dumb..one man should of crushed him and then called the police on the sneaky greasy thief
The same as the white people feel about the Christmas parade
This lady is super racist.
Obama created the racist divide, now Americans are at the point of collapse and socialism is looming
2021or 1821?
🤬 you impacted yourself by rioting and protesting with BLM but the worst is the rioting now keep playing the racist card + the I'm the victim lol now true Americans 👨🏼👨🏻👨🏽👨🏾👨🏿👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽👩🏼👩🏻 are getting tired from all this bs from FAKE MEDIA pay by dem
Someone videotaped George Floyd's death and is considered a hero. Doing the same here and you're charged for murder.
One star bomb yt for the dislike button removal
So the Black dude who ran into a crowd during the parade was caught minutes later, arrested, and held under a $5mil bond. I'm not saying he's correct but obviously his blackness increased his bail and prevented him from spending 2 free months at home to get his story together. If this isn't an obvious example of the injustice and racial discrimination in the Justice system I'm sure I can give many many more but who's really paying attention?
The McMichaels are simply scapegoats for alt left agenda gun control, there's simply nothing their constituency hates more than a Alpha minded chubby unattractive middle-aged heterosexual white male sporting an unkempt beard thats armed with an evil g…g…g…gun that's why even the baby-faced Kyle Drew their ire after one of the most painfully obvious self-defense shootings ever captured on camera
It's logistically impossible to take guns away from people but you can make it impossible to use them even under circumstances that are so obviously defendable
Once law-abiding citizens realize they'll go to prison for hurting a criminal that attacked them if they used a firearm in a perfectly justifiable way they will logistically stop purchasing firearms because they would become nothing more than a dangerous liability
Kyle was a difficult Target because he was young, adorable and only shot white people while the McMichaels are the proverbial low-hanging fruit of this clandestine gun control strategy
While well-intentioned the bumbling McMichaels arguably broke a few laws in their overzealous attempt to protect their neighborhood and their fumbling nervous demeanor makes it quite easy to pinch incriminating sound bites from their testimony with slick editing
Mental health on blacks? That bitch is whiter than Kyle Rittenhouse
She has a dirty mop on her head
FU BLM FUX…
More fking leftard media race-baiting bullshit. 😠😠😠😠😠
If it wasn’t for the MSM, race relations would be fine.
Wizdom? With a Z, no less? The need to be different and a “star” is just new levels of cringe.
This is a case of behavior and showing respect, not race, excet racist people making it about race.
The U.S. is a fascist, Nazi Germany 2.0, South Africa & Israel Apartheid System 2.0.
That chick doesnt know of she wants hair or wants too be bald .
Blacks should obey the law.
I know all that fake hair is heavy af
It hasn’t been a hard few days.
These are two separate cases with separate facts.
This isn’t “news”
FACTS ARE THE FACTS! NOT ONLY THIS CASE HAS OPEN THE BLACK COMMUNITY EYES! JUST KNOW "THE RECKONING IS COMING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT SERVE RACISM IN THIS WORLD BELIEVE IT"!!!
What impact? Don't go into houses you don't own in areas you don't live in?
Please! Please! I wish African Americans stop saying black and brown people. Brown people were not chattel slaves. The people who first brought the slaves to the Americas were Spanish people. Dr. John Henrik Clarke had often reiterated "it is just us."
👨⚖️😡🤷♂️👎 ~ How is this a fair trial if the jury never heard evidence that would support the fact that Ahmaud Arbery (A.A.) has extreme mental illness and has been known to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation? I’ll mention more about that in the next paragraph, but first thing I’ll say is that racial bias is real in society. I know that more than most white people saying how I’m married to a black man. And I struggle back-and-forth between seeing myself as someone who would be a “lookee lou“ by going into a house under construction, but I also have sympathy for neighbors that wanted to protect their community. People of all races and backgrounds have stepped in when the first responders aren’t available. The first responders that are available could be police, fire, or ambulance. Do we tell citizens not to rescue someone who is trapped unconscious in a burning car? Do we tell citizens not to perform CPR on someone because that’s the job of paramedics?
(By the way, I’m referring to Ahmaud Arbery as “AA” because my iPhone’s voice dictation can’t actually type out his name when I say it. So I’m just gonna say AA.)
But as to AAs past that makes me believe Travis McMichael‘s testimony, do you know about AAs propensity to become angry and act out? What about when he brought a gun to a high school basketball game? What about when he told a doctor that voices in his head make him want to rob people and hurt people? What about how he is no longer on his mental illness medication? What about how he acts out with anger when anybody tries to exercise authority over him like how he look like he was beyond furious when cops stopped him shortly before the murder by a few weeks? He acted so indignant that a cop would dare stop him. Not that he was mad, but he also acted like he was just beyond furious. I also remember reading somewhere that he might’ve attacked his mother at one time, but I can’t seem to find that on news our articles about his history right now. Travis McMichael testified how he pulled up to AAA and asked him what was going on but AAA refused to even look at them and was grinding his teeth like he was furious that someone would dare approach him and ask what he was doing in a house like that?
Like I said before, I could see myself as AAA because I’ve explored places similar to that when I knew I shouldn’t be there. I’ve even explored places that were businesses around where I worked when I went by one night and saw the door propped open by the cleaning crew so I just walked inside to look around. I never thought of it as a crime, though I knew I wasn’t actually supposed to be in there. Had someone stop me, even the cleaning crew, I would’ve froze at my place and I would’ve felt as though I knew I shouldn’t of been in there and I would’ve apologized. But that’s not even close to what AAA did. And you have to remember that only a few weeks prior Travis McMichael had caught him outside of the house at night and confronted him from a distance on what he was doing there. Travis McMichael said that AAA walked toward him, put his hand in his waistband, and that’s when Travis McMichael jumped in his car and reversed out of there very quickly. Normally I wouldn’t have necessarily believed what Travis McMichael was saying because that seems like a kind of a convenient story, but we know it’s true because he immediately called 911 so it’s all on tape. And after AAA was confronted that night he didn’t run away immediately, but he ran back into the house. Travis McMichael said that he ran into the house, and then we see on the security camera that once he’s in the house he is just walking around like nothing just happened outside. But then he immediately leaves before the cops get there. And when the cops get there they search the house with their guns out. Is there anything wrong with the cops having their guns out?
Has anybody ever watched a movie that takes place on the streets of NYC in the 90s or early 2000s where a woman has the purse snatched out of her arm? All sudden she starts screaming and pointing at the guy saying stop that man he stole my purse. And then a good Samaritan grabs the young punk and holds them for Police? Should that good Samaritan be charged with assault and false imprisonment? What if the good Samaritan didn’t actually see the criminal grab the woman’s purse, but he saw her chasing him, he saw the guy running for dear life, and he saw the guy holding a purse? I guess someone could claim that that’s not actually probable cause for a citizens arrest because the good Samaritan could have grabbed a guy that was running with his wife’s purse to take it to the subway station before she missed her train. I think sometimes whether you get in trouble for a citizens arrest ultimately Hass to do with whether you actually got the right person or not, legally that’s not how it works in Georgia, but it kind of makes sense to me to say you better make sure you have a lot of evidence before you hold somebody or you could get in trouble. But that say you don’t have a lot of evidence, but you get the right person, should I go to prison?
Some people have said that AAA would’ve been running scared for his life. Now I can’t believe that because if I was scared I wouldn’t happily run alongside a truck that was scaring me. Now sometimes AAA would stop immediately in his tracks and turn around running the opposite direction. But if you notice in the video right before AA and Travis McMichael start fighting over the gun, there is plenty of space and open grass for AAA to run off the road at a 90° angle. AAA could have easily ran away, he could’ve ran to someone’s door in pounded on the door screaming help, there’s many things he could’ve done. But he didn’t do any of them. Because I do not see him as scared, I see him as furious that someone dare try to exercise authority over him just because he was in a location he shouldn’t have been.
I do believe this was a politically motivated prosecution to one degree or another. The reason I say so is because they charged William “Roddie“ Bryan With first-degree murder and also felony murder just like the others. And if not for William Bryan then it’s basically impossible charges ever would’ve been filed against the other two. But they weren’t willing to have him testify against the others for a better deal because granting somebody immunity that is considered by the public to be racist is a way to end one’s career in government service where you’ll never be able to run for election or higher office.
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🤪Wtf is that ???
WHO LETS THIS GUY COMMENTATE!!! He is such a race apologist. What does say about the south and the past. This continues to happen EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW!!!
Just remember a dirty racist DA covered all of this up. If there was no video justice would have been denied.
For all our bravado, and bragging America remains a backward racist nation, yes, even in 2021.
Why did the guy who took the video, get charged and convicted of felony murder?!
Can anyone explain what he did wrong?
One small victory means very little when the system of racism white supremacy is still fully in tact. Unfortunately there will be more incidents like this simply because of the culture of anti Black racism that has been cultivated in America for the past four centuries.