Ahmaud Arbery's mother: George Floyd protests give 'me strength to go on'
As George Floyd's loved ones prepared to say their final farewells at his funeral service in Houston on Tuesday, thousands came to the city to pay their own respects, including Wanda Cooper Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was killed while jogging in Georgia.
Cooper Jones told Muir that she'd never thought her own son would fall victim to violence. On Thursday, graphic details of Arbery's last moments were revealed during a preliminary hearing for the men accused of killing her son, including that he had been hit by a truck and called a racial slur. Cooper Jones is now pushing Georgia to pass a hate crime bill. She told Muir that Arbery would be proud of her activism, her presence in Houston and the journey she'd embarked on to get him justice.
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