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Gregory and Travis McMichael are Innocent.

It’s not racism. It’s not murder. It’s self defense and the 2nd Amendment. The media is lying to the public.

If you are unaware of the details regarding the February 23rd incident regarding Ahmaud Arbery’s confrontation with Gregory and Travis McMichael in Georgia, I encourage you to learn as many facts about the case as possible. The purpose of this article is editorial in nature and will involve an overall summary of key points regarding the incident.

Before anything, it must be unequivocally stated that I wish that Ahmaud Arbery did not lose his life.

You live in a neighborhood as a retired police investigator. You’ve served this community for a good while and you’ve encountered lots of criminals and cases. You have a good understanding of how the law works. You support your country, support your family, support the constitution, and support your local community.

There’s this one guy that keeps coming up. His name is Ahmaud Arbery and yours is Gregory McMichael. You are revered as the “cop expert” of your neighborhood and have been asked to keep a general watch over things in your neighborhood, where there have been a fair amount of break-ins and your neighbors are fed-up with the police response. Even your son, Travis McMichael, had his gun stolen from his pickup truck.

This guy, Ahmaud Arbery — you are aware of the time he tried to bring a gun into a High School basketball game. Your neighbors have also showed you security camera footage of a man fitting the description of Arbery searching around this under-construction house in the dark of the night back in October of 2019.

Additionally, your son, Travis, was driving his truck through the neighborhood on February 11 at night and he sees someone running into this same house. When this man saw him, he runs into the house, Travis calls 911, and the man is not seen again. Not only that, but during this sighting in the neighborhood, where a man enters a house that Travis’s father knows about a prior break-in here, he also saw the man reach into his pocket before running into the house. Alarmed as he was, he becomes suspicious if this man, sprinting into the house under construction at night, is armed.

The police arrive at the construction site on Satilla Drive later. Travis informs the police dispatcher of all the recent burglaries and break-ins (these events, again, occurring on February 11, twelve days before the infamous incident), along with how his gun was stolen from his own truck.

He informs his neighbors of this man and four people begin looking for this suspicious man. Diego Perez, a neighbor, along with Gregory McMichael, were both armed and searching for this man that night.

Let’s pause. Before beginning the discussion of the actual incident, it is important to understand how a court of law works and how prior experience influences all future decision-making.

Keep that in mind. Gregory McMichael knew of Arbery’s past, knows of the break-ins, knows of the burglaries, and knows the potential danger of this man. Getting in the heads of the McMichaels is crucial to fully understanding their thought processes and subsequent actions.

On February 23, a neighbor of the McMichaels called 911, stating that a black man in a white T-shirt was inside a house that was partially under construction and partially enclosed. On this same day, there were several other 911 calls reporting a suspect matching Arbery’s description looking into houses.

Arbery comes back out of the house, sees an excited man on his phone (submitting the 911 call), and sprints away. Keep in mind, at this point, nobody was actively chasing him, nobody was pointing a gun at him, and nobody was instigating him. Arbery chose to flee absent of any threatening force.

While these events occur, Gregory McMichael is standing in his front yard and sees Arbery “hauling ass” down the street. The house Arbery was seen in is visible to McMichael from here, along with the neighbor calling 911.

Nothing was stolen from the house; it was not burglary. It was, at the very least, criminal trespass, a misdemeanor. However, if there is an intent to commit any crime on that property, it is a felony.

Here, we can already see that the claim of Arbery supposedly “jogging” is false. Jogging does not involve entering a house under construction and sprinting away upon someone calling 911. If you were just “jogging” and saw someone calling 911, you know you didn’t do anything suspicious, and you know there’s no reason for anyone to get suspicious of you. If you’re merely jogging, you’re doing no wrong and you’re running by. Period. You’re not going into random houses under construction.

Gregory M. sees Arbery running, dashes inside where his son, Travis is, proclaims it’s Arbery, grabs his shotgun, says “let’s go,” and they get in their truck and pursue the man for a citizen’s arrest.

Regarding the shotgun that Gregory M. is holding: in the state of Georgia, a long gun that is loaded must be carried opening and in a “fully exposed manner,” and can be carried without a license. Keep that in mind. If Gregory M., former cop, did not carry his self-defense weapon openly, he would be violating Georgia state law, because his gun is loaded (what’s a gun for self defense if it’s not loaded?).

It is very important you understand the decision to bring along a shotgun — this is at the heart of the incident. As previously mentioned, there were prior altercations regarding theft and break-ins, and Gregory M. personally dealt with Arbery’s prosecution in bringing a firearm on campus. When dealing with a criminal, you never 100% know his physical capability or whether he is armed or not. In the United States of America in the state of Georgia, you are permitted to carry a firearm and you are permitted to pursue a citizen’s arrest. Gregory McMichael did nothing wrong in choosing to carry a self-defense weapon in the pursuit of a possibly armed man. His intent was not to cold-blood murder this man, or to “lynch” him. If that were the intent, he would have shot him right when he got the chance.

The men drive in the truck, following Arbery, shouting at him to stop and to answer some questions. There is no evidence of either of the McMichaels physically attacking or attempting to grab Arbery, nor is there any evidence on the released video that Gregory M. aimed his shotgun at Arbery.

As the events progressed, we pick up where the viral video is seen. We see Arbery sprinting down the street towards a parked pick-up truck. To recap the video, he runs to the truck, loops around the front, charges into contact with Gregory M., they fight over possession of the shotgun, several shots are fired, and Arbery’s life is tragically ended.

It must be stressed that I hold the opinion that this incident is absurdly unfortunate in its outcome.

However, all events that lead up to the physical confrontation between McMichael and Arbery are 100% legal and morally justified:

I pose a question. Some claim Arbery tried to take the shotgun “out of fear,” or that Gregory M. was “intimidating” Arbery with his shotgun. For sake of argument, let’s just assume that Gregory M. was brandishing his shotgun in a threatening manner, that he was being utterly and openly racist through intimidating language. Let’s assume Gregory M. was being as racist and as threatening as humanly possible. First of all, you are not supposed to brandish a weapon. For sake of this scenario, we will just examine the argument that “Arbery was scared and intimidated, therefore he was right in trying to seize a shotgun out of the intimidating man’s hands.”

The video shows there is a good distance between the “intimidating” McMichaels, parked yards and yards away from a running Arbery.

Red flag.

Why did Arbery charge McMichael if he was so scared? The guy has a shotgun. If Arbery thought he was going to get shot, why did he not take advantage of this fact, use distance to his advantage, and run in the opposite direction? Or simply stop? Or simply run off the road? If he feared for his life, why would he run towards a stationary armed-man who he knew had a shotgun and supposedly thought he was going to be shot at? The distance between them in the released video debunks this theory.

Now back to the even stronger reality.

Gregory M. was not attacking Arbery, was not brandishing the weapon, and was a good distance away from Arbery. That’s even more indicative of this fact: Arbery initiated the violence, and the shot gun did not come into any physical play until Arbery reached for it.

The unfortunate turn of events does not justify Arbery attempting to take a shotgun that was not being used, and showed no actual signs of being used, against him.

The next question: if someone reaches for your self-defense weapon, what can you do?

For starters, even if the man reaching for your weapon is unarmed, he is no longer “unarmed.” He has reach of your weapon and is milliseconds away from yanking it away from you and potentially turning it on you. You, as a human, are not expected to be omniscient and to assume “Oh, this guy is just scared of me. He won’t do anything with my shotgun, he’ll just take it so I can’t use it on him. He’s just trying to defuse the situation, he’s just scare. There is no possibility of this guy fleeing a crime scene using my own weapon against me, who’s trying to lawfully arrest him.” Running towards a guy with a shotgun and trying to rip that shotgun out of his hands is not how you handle “being intimidated” and is not an example of self defense.

This leads to whether or not Gregory M. was justified in pursuing a citizen’s arrest in the first place.

However, it should be noted that no physical contact or attempt to restrain Arbery ever occurred. At worst, they were harassing and haranguing Arbery by following him in their truck and yelling at him to stop. No finger was ever laid upon him.

Yet, Gregory M. was justified in pursuing a citizen’s arrest. In Georgia, you may perform a citizen’s arrest with immediate knowledge of a felony with reasonable suspicion for questioning. This is where intent comes in.

Gregory M. had immediate knowledge: he sees his neighbor on the phone with 911, he sees the house Arbery is fleeing from, and he sees Arbery running away from both the neighbor on 911 and the house he just exited. It should be obvious this is an example of having immediate knowledge of a crime.

Next is why it’s a felony. It is legally established that a felony is committed if there is intent to steal upon criminally trespassing, even if nothing is stolen. Gregory M. most certainly had reasonable suspicion to logically deduce that Arbery was looking to steal something out of the house.

Why else would he be fleeing so abruptly? Why else would anyone repeatedly enter a house under construction and be seen on surveillance footage looking all around the interior? Why would someone do this? How is it not reasonable for an observer to think to themselves “This guy just ran out of that house he trespassed on from this guy calling 911 on him! And I just saw this seemingly same guy in there several times before on security cameras! He must’ve been up to something in there, why else would someone continuously trespass?”

Intent cannot be proven in the moment. It must be proved after-the-fact. If intent had to be proved in the moment, no police officer could ever arrest a citizen on reasonable suspicion that they had intent to commit a felony crime, thus voiding all laws with the term “intent” inscribed therein. Gregory M. was not incorrect in being reasonably suspicious of Arbery intending on doing something illegal on this property he was seen trespassing on.

With this in mind — reasonable suspicion of a felony being committed — the McMichaels were correct in shouting at Arbery to get him to stop and answer some questions, per Georgia law.

It should also be noted that citizen’s arrest law allows the citizen to literally arrest someone using force. Gregory M. would have been legally permitted to physically grab Arbery and hold him there for questioning and handing him over to the police.

Additionally, even if it were proven that Arbery had no intent to commit a crime on that property, the arrest would still have been justified. Arrests happen in the moment based on reasonable suspicion — if this were not the case, all crimes where someone was proven not guilty would result in a “false imprisonment” charges.

Finally, even if Arbery were grabbing the shotgun in “self defense,” it is illegal under GA code 16–3–24.2 to attempt to use physical force against another when the suspect is “attempting to commit, committing, or fleeing after the commission or attempted commission of a felony.” AND, according to the same law, “A person is justified in using force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or herself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”

If that doesn’t convince you, the same law states that a person cannot use physical or deadly force if he also “Was the aggressor or was engaged in a combat by agreement unless he withdraws from the encounter and effectively communicates to such other person his intent to do so and the other, notwithstanding, continues or threatens the use of unlawful force.”

All of this is important; facts and laws matter. Race-baiting is not productive and sensationalist headlines mean nothing. There is no evidence to suggest that:

With all of the facts in mind, it is clear that this is case where a community fed-up with break-ins and trespassing finally caught a man in the act, tried to pursue him and get him arrested, were then charged at and had their self-defense weapon reached for, and either pulled the trigger to defend himself or had the trigger pulled accidentally during the struggle for it (there is no actual evidence whether McMichael pulled the trigger purposefully or accidentally while they fought over the weapon). McMichaels did not instigate violence, and they did not physically threaten him or charge him. Arbery charged at an innocent man obeying the law who possessed a responsibly held self-defense long gun in the state of Georgia, instigating violence by charging McMichael and attempting to steal that weapon.

Gregory and Travis McMichael did nothing illegal and did not instigate violence. They were protecting their community in a peaceful and legal manner. Arbery decided to attack them, and the unspeakable followed,

The McMichaels are innocent.

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