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US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
The 11th Circuit upheld convictions citing racist texts and posts as proof of racial motivation in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, reinforcing hate crime rulings.
A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Greg and Travis McMichael pursued 25-year-old Arbery in a pickup truck, and one of them shot him.
Federal prosecutors argued that Arbery's killing was driven by "pent-up racial anger."
All three men were previously convicted of murder in a Georgia state court in late 2021.