The deal would have allowed two of Ahmaud Arbery's killers to serve in 'preferred' federal prisons
A US judge has rejected a plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.
Her ruling comes after Travis McMichael admitted for the first time race was his motivation for chasing Mr Arbery.Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour William Bryan were found guilty of his murder in November. But it emerged on Sunday that US federal prosecutors had reached plea agreements with the McMichaels, according to court papers.
Civil rights activists believe a federal trial would have been a key moment in the country's reckoning with racial injustice.Watch the full story: What a young jogger's murder exposes about America
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