Commentary: Justice is done for Ahmaud Arbery, but a legacy of racial injustice can’t be answered in one verdict
by Erwin Chemerinsky, Los Angeles Times
Nov 29, 2021
3 minutes
In hearing the guilty verdicts of those who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, I felt a sense of relief that justice was done in a case where the evidence was so clear that the defendants were guilty. Yet that reaction, which I am sure was shared by many, reveals a great deal about our country’s history in cases dealing with race — and about a frightening attitude toward vigilantism at this time.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was
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