Arbery Prosecutors Roast McMichael On Cross
The prosecutor bluntly asked McMichael if Arbery ever threatened him or brandished a weapon.
"He did not threaten me verbally," McMichael told Dunikoski, adding that Arbery never drew a weapon on him.
“"He just ran?" Dunikoski questioned further.
"Yes, he was just running," McMichael responded.
The admission from McMichael that Arbery never threatened him could sink the defense’s self-defense rhetoric, Slobogin said.
"You can't argue self defense if you're the one that's started the series of events that led to the use of deadly force. If you provoked the person you eventually kill to attack you, you cannot assert self-defense in response to that attack," he explained.
When asked by Dunikoski about the last moments before Arbery was killed, he replied: "I was thinking that he was a threat, that he might go after myself, my father or the truck."
Dunikoski countered: "So you’re telling this jury that a man who has spent five minutes running away from you, you're now thinking is somehow going to want to continue to engage with you — someone with a shotgun — and your father — a man who's just said, 'stop or I'll blow your f-----g head off,' by trying to get in their truck?"
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/582264-arbery-prosecutors-grill-defendant-mcmichael-in-cross-examination
Bottom line, a black man failed to follow the orders of a Southern White Man, so he shot him.
