On Friday, people are running, walking, or jogging 2.23 miles to honor the life of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Georgia resident who was fatally shot while on a run in a neighborhood near his own.
May 8 would have been Arbery's 26th birthday, and the 2.23 miles are meant to represent February 23, the date of Arbery's death.
Though Arbery was killed in February, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation did not initiate an investigation until May 6, shortly after the May 5th release of graphic video footage depicting the incident, and mounting public outcry.
On Thursday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that Gregory McMichael, who formerly worked for the Glynn County Police Department in Georgia and as an investigator in the district attorney's office in Brunswick, GA, and his 34-year-old son, Travis, were arrested and charged for murder and aggravated assault. (Officials said the charges against the suspects in Arbery's case were not driven by the growing attention emerging across the country, the New York Times reports.) Read more...
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