CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On Saturday, the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP protested the shooting and killing of a black man who was out for a run in south Georgia.
In February, Ahmaud Arbery was running through a neighborhood when two white men in a pickup truck drove after him and stopped him.
Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, claimed Arbery looked like a suspect in recent break-ins.
As they stopped him, there was a struggle. Soon after, police said Travis McMichael shot Arbery three times.
The protest at Little Rock African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was a show of solidarity with the Georgia branch of the NAACP.
“You have to say something. If you don’t you’re guilty by silence,” said protestor Kashif Ahmed.
Those who participated wanted to make it known how alarming this shooting was, especially for the black community.
“It’s the responsibility of every human being to understand every human life has worth. Every human being,” said NAACP president Corine Mack.
Travis and Gregory McMichael were arrested a little over two months after the shooting happened, only after the video became public.
Georgia’s attorney general will be looking into how the case was handled from the very beginning and why it took so long to make an arrest.
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