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Father and son sentenced to life for a hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery s death BRUNSWICK, Ga. The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery s fatal shooting after they chased the 25yearold Black man through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime. U. S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood handed down the sentences against Travis McMichael, 36, and his father, Greg McMichael, 66, reiterating the gravity of the February 2020 killing that shattered their Brunswick community and became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice. William Roddie Bryan, 52, who recorded cellphone video of the slaying, was sentenced to 35 years in prison. A young man is dead. Ahmaud Arbery will be forever 25. And what happened a jury found happened because he s Black, Wood said. Georgia marks statewide Ahmaud Arbery Day to honor the slain jogger The McMichaels were previo
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