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TL;DR news on Ahmaud Arbery at June 14, 2023

Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun. "His life did matter," said Carla Arbery, 52. Or forget him." As Black residents of Georgia say they will press for more change, the last major milestone in the Arbery case is set to play out on Monday. The men cornered Arbery with their trucks before the younger McMichael fatally shot him. NEW PROSECUTOR, NEW POLICE CHIEF Arbery's family worked to get Johnson voted from office in November 2020. After the Arbery case drew global attention, Georgia's citizen's arrest law was largely abolished by a law Gov. Glynn County Commissioner Allen Booker, who is a family friend of the Arberys, said the case was among the reasons the commission sacked the police chief in the county of 85,000. The suit claims that the political environment following Arbery's death led the commission to overlook them for the job of chief in favor of hiring a Black officer.