An FBI analyst testified on Wednesday that she found a digital onslaught of messages, mostly from Travis McMichael, in which he allegedly routinely used racial slurs to describe Black people and advocated violence against them.
Pool/Getty Images, FILE, Travis McMichael testified he is not a racist. But prosecutors in his federal hate crimes case have presented the jury with numerous statements, text messages and social media posts to allege racism was the underlying motive for why he, his father and their neighbor chased down and killed the 25-year-old Black man.
"'They'd be scraping up brain matter if this happened to my wife or daughter,'" Vaughn read out loud from McMichael's alleged message in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia. Thomas said he was so disturbed by Travis McMichael's texted response that he called him to confront him about it. When asked to read Travis McMichael's text in court, Thomas declined and instead spelled out the racial slur he used to describe Black people.
Vaughn said the FBI also uncovered numerous online posts from Bryan in which he allegedly express his resentment over a relationship his daughter developed with a Black man. In one post Vaughn read in court, Bryan allegedly wrote,"This is the only thing I said I would never accept" and added,"If she doesn’t give a f--- about herself, why should we?"
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