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 Being a judge comes with great authority, moral authority, and hence with even greater responsibility. 

This case is telling us a lot about America at its worst, and its best.  Socrates said, four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly and to decide impartially. Listening to Judge Timothy Walmsley in this case, I was moved. He models the capacity to put ourselves in some else's shoes.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/07/ahmaud-arbery-murder-sentencing 


“A resident of Glynn County, a graduate of Brunswick High, a son, a brother, a young man with dreams was gunned down in this community,” Judge Timothy Walmsley said before pronouncing the sentences. “As we understand it, he left his home apparently to go for a run, and he ended up running for his life.” 

 

The courtroom was still as Walmsley paused for a minute of silence — a fraction of the five minutes Arbery ran before he was cornered and shot. Walmsley said he “kept coming back to the terror” Arbery must have felt as he was chased through the neighborhood of Satilla Shores in the coastal Georgia community. 

 

The three White men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery nearly two years ago in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests, were sentenced Friday to life in prison, two of them without the possibility of parole. 

 

Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan chased and killed Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, in February 2020. Their pursuit of Arbery in pickup trucks through suburban streets near Brunswick, Ga., ended with Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery, who was unarmed. All three face federal hate-crime charges in a trial that is expected to begin next month. 






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  1. nicole gervacioJanuary 18, 2022 at 9:22 AM

    may Amaud rest in power, may he rest in peace, and may Amaud's story, his life & memory never be forgotten...

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