Three men who were charged with murder months after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery face a hearing before a Georgia judge Thursday following a week of angry protests in the U.S. over law enforcement biases against black victims.
Glynn County Magistrate Judge Wallace E. Harrell scheduled the hearing to determine whether authorities have enough evidence of murder in Arbery's killing to send the case to a trial court.
The neighbour who filmed the video, 50-year-old William "Roddie" Bryan, was also arrested and charged with felony murder and illegally using a vehicle to try to confine and detain Arbery. Defence attorneys requested the hearing to make prosecutors show whether they have probable cause to charge the men with murder.
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