Two Georgia laws led private citizens to play cop — with disastrous consequences.
The father and son benefited from legal cover granted by two often misunderstood state laws, which can both separately prompt disastrous, deadly outcomes.
In Arbery’s case, the 25-year-old Black man was out for a Sunday afternoon jog when the McMichaels, both white men, decided the activity was suspicious and believed he might be responsible for a string of robberies in the area. “Fear is oftentimes based on one’s own bias,” Hutchins told GPB in a 2012 interview. “So when you have public policy that literally lends itself to people being able to commit crimes or shootings under the color of law, because they’re reasonably afraid, it makes a bad public policy and puts the constitutional rights of so many people around the country in jeopardy.”
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