Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of National Action Network (NAN), is demanding an immediate investigation into the case of an unarmed 25-year-old man, Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by a father and a son in Brunswick, GA, on February 23rd.
The father is a former Glynn County police officer. There have been no charges or arrests in connection with the killing and Rev. Sharpton and NAN are calling for an investigation for racial profiling and the unjust illegal use of Georgia’s citizen arrest statute. Rev. Sharpton and NAN were brought into the case by the family of Mr. Arbery and his attorney S. Lee Merritt, Esq.
According to Attorney S. Lee Merritt: “The family of Ahmaud Arbery is relieved to receive the support of the NAN under the leadership of Rev. Al Sharpton. NAN will be working closely with our attorneys to ensure Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael are vigorously prosecuted and appropriately sentenced. Our attention now turns to DA Tom Durden of Liberty County, GA where the case has been referred. Mr. Durden has held this file since April 22. He has not met with the Arbery family nor requested the assistance of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) in the handling of the case. As the DA for Liberty County, Mr. Durden likely shares similar conflicts that required two other county DAs to recuse themselves from this case. As such, we are demanding that Mr. Durden turn this file over to an independent special prosecutor. We are also calling for a prompt DOJ investigation into this shooting. We believe Mr. Arbery’s murder qualifies as a hate crime and should be reviewed under The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 28 U.S.C. § 994 note Sec. 280003.
For more visit the family’s Facebook page.
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