'I've experienced racism on different levels,' he said. Still, he said he did not pay much attention to the case prior to the trial because he had been dealing with the death of his grandmother.ĭuring the trial, federal prosecutors walked the jury through roughly two dozen racist text messages and social media posts, mostly by Travis McMichael and Bryan, in which they referred to black people as 'subhuman' and 'savages.' Ransom said he was not shocked by the racist slurs the men used. Ransom, who lives about three hours from coastal Glynn County where Arbery was murdered and the trial was held, said he was shocked by the graphic video that leaked online two months after the slaying. The McMichaels armed themselves and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, after spotting him running in their neighborhood on February 23, 2020.īryan joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun. No one is above laws.'Īrbery, 25, died from a shotgun blast fired by Travis McMichael while he was out running 'No matter what it is, you´ve got to have consequences. 'Wrong is wrong and right is right,' Ransom told The New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. Ransom said the depths of racism displayed in messages exchanged by the trio - previously convicted of Arbery's murder - made him sob.īut the 35-year-old social worker said that the outcome of the case left him feeling hopeful, suggesting that the guilty verdicts signal that while acts of racial violence still occur in the US, 'we're moving in the right direction.' 'Just seeing that it was so much hatred that they had, not only for Ahmaud, but to other people of the black race,' Ransom said. Marcus Ransom said he found no signs of remorse in father and son Greg and Travis McMichael, nor in their neighbor, William 'Roddie' Bryan, during the trial last month. She was born in Moscow in the former Soviet Union to Alla and Sergei Kournikov.Her father,a lecturer at the sports university in Moscow and a part-time tennis coach and her mother did not encourage Anna to play tennis for the fame but rather for the health benefits of the sport.she never won a singles tournament in career but in doubles,along with Martina Hingis,she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 19.Finally she retired in 2003.The sole black male juror who served as foreman of the panel that convicted three white men of federal hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery marveled at the amount of racial hatred the trio had shown. Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a retired Russian professional tennis player ,model and celebrity.
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