Georgia is one of four states in the U.S. that doesn't have a hate crimes prevention law.
Two white men accused of fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in what Arbery's family is calling a modern-day lynching will not face hate crime charges, according to state investigators.
"There's no hate crime in Georgia," Georgia Bureau of Investigations Director Vic Reynolds said in a press conference Friday morning when asked whether the men would face hate crime charges. He also said the department will be investigating William Bryan, the man who filmed the incident, to determine whether he should be arrested too.
Arbery, who was black, was killed Feb. 23 on a residential street about 2 miles from his home outside Brunswick, Georgia. Gregory McMichael told police they saw him running and believed he was a burglary suspect, so they armed themselves, got in a truck and followed him. They told police Arbery attacked them after one of the men got out of the truck with a shotgun.
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