what greg mcmichael was doing when he made this 911 call. did he say anything to this specific officer about witnessing a crime? what was his state of mind when he was talking to the 911 dispatch officer? we heard the dispatcher say, what is your emergency, and he didn't say i just watched someone commit a crime, he didn't say he watched him run from inside a house, he said a black man ran down the street. the jury needs to figure out what was the state of mind of greg mcmichael or the provocation as travis mcmichael made those shots on ahmaud arbery. >> there are nine different counts and three different defendants who all had different roles. is that complicated? >> i think it's very complicated. they have to go through a tremendous amount of very complex law trying to figure out at certain times, who is the aggressor, who isn't the aggressor, what was reasonable, what wasn't reasonable. each of these defendants has a different amount of culpability. a shooter is one thing, as opposed to the other end of the spectrum, roddie bryan is actua

greg mcmichael was in law enforcement many years. he was a cop first, and then went to work for the glynn county district attorney's office. he was an investigator with them, had just retired a year previously. >> tell me about his relationship with his son, travis. >> they're close. they both like the water. of course, travis was in the coast guard, having grown up on the water like greg did. >> travis grew up in brunswick. he went to brunswick high school, graduated in 2004. >> i live right there. >> travis mcmichael was 34 years old. he had moved back in with his parents, and that's where he was in satilla shores. >> how you doing, sir? william "roddie" bryan lived in satilla shores, nearby the mcmichael. he worked in a hardware store. >> roddie bryan is a salt of the earth kind of guy. he's the kind of person that everyone who meets, likes. >> nobody got this on video, you just witnessed it correct? >> yeah, i got it. >> roddie bryan, i mean, he supplied, the next best thing for the prosecution than a confession. >> at what point

greg mcmichael. where's greg mcmichael? greg mcmichael is sitting this-in that car seat, right? second person comes around. then what happens? then mr. albenze walks down the street. he's walking. he's walking. he's walking. he's walking. truck pulls out. wow. truck pulls out. mr. albenze does his pointing when the truck is already pulled out and going down the street. want to see it again? back it up. here we go. there's mr. albenze. there's the black car. there goes ahmaud. running down the street. there he goes. this is the white truck. he's still underneath here. here comes somebody to the truck. he's right there. here comes greg mcmichael-he comes around. he gets in. then mr. albenze starts walking down the street. truck pulls out. there goes his arm. there goes his arm. where is the truck? already pulled out. already pulled out and heading down the street. all right. should you trust the statements of travis mcmichael? well, let's go a

so what does greg mcmichael do? well, while first responders are on the scene, he's going up and telling his kid, you didn't have any choice. he goes over and talks to bryan over what he saw. oh, he's got a video. he talks to diego perez. he's outside the crime scene tape, wandering around, talking to people. someone brings him his phone. a stranger comes up to him, some stranger, some neighbor comes up to him. i mean, this is a crime scene! there is a deceased young man in the middle of the road. and strangers are walking up to him, and what does he tell this stranger? this guy ain't no shuffler, this guy's an asshole! malice. right there. that's how you know. right there. 2:15 p.m., he's talking to captain tom jump, the head of cid. the head of the criminal investigations division of glenn county police department. while tom jumps, crime scene tech is taking photos, and greg mcmichael drives his white truck from the scene, never got any pictures of the white truck. never got any pictures of the silverado. the whit

what does greg mcmichael do? well, while first responders are on the scene, he's telling his kid, you didn't have any choice. he goes over and talks to bryan to find out what he saw. oh, he's got a video. he talked to diego perez. he's outside the crime scene tape wandering around, talking to people. someone brings him a phone. stranger comes up to him, some stranger, some neighbor comes up to him. this is a crime scene. there is a deceased young man in the middle of the road, and strangers are walking up to him. what does he tell the stranger? this guy is an asshole. malice right there. that's how you know. right there. 2/15 p.m., he's talking to captain john pump, the head of the criminal investigations division of glynn county police department. while tom jones, crime scene tech, is taking photos. okay? and then greg mcmichael drives his white truck from the scene. never got any pictures of the white truck. never got pictures of the silverado. hmm. the white truck was never searched. mr. bryan's truck was neve

that's what greg mcmichael and mr. bryan saw. then you have to think to yourself, okay, what's going on in their heads? there's a dead man in the street. travis mcmichael has just shot him. okay? the police are on the scene. there's now a video of it. so are their statements a couple hours later self-serving? you decide. the investigation starting on may 5th, 2020, followed by the arrest. first off, the credibility of witnesses is for you to determine who you believe and don't believe. what that means is you're the one who decides whether travis mcmichael is telling you the truth or lying to you. let's talk about some of the defense witnesses. beasley, what did she do when she got off the stand? she walked over here and waved at them and walked off the stand. you all saw that. annabel beasley, dean mcmichael. sue lawrence. who is she? boy, team mcmichael. even after the shooting, they're going out on the boat with greg and lee mcmichael. they're still hanging out with them. okay. team mcmichael. mark perez. team mcmichael. up unt

we the jury find the defendant , greg mcmichael, lt. -- guilty. count nine. criminal intent to commit a felony. we the jury find the defendant guilty. dated this 24th day of november, 21, signed by the foreperson. as to william bryan. in the superior court of glynn county, state of georgia. state of georgia versus william bryan. count one, malice murder. the jury find the defendant, william bryan, not guilty. count two, felony murder. we the jury find the defendant not guilty. count three. felony murder. we the jury find the defendant , william bryan, guilty. count four, felony murder. we the jury find the defendant , william bryan, lt. count five, felony murder. we the jury find the defendant, william brian, guilty. count six, aggravated assault. we the jury find the defendant not guilty. count seven. aggravated assault. we the jury find the defendant , william bryan, guilty. count eight, false imprisonment. we the jury find the defendant guilty. count nine. criminal intent to commit a felony. we the jury find the defendant, william bryan, guilty. signed thi

greg mcmichael assumed the worst. and so i thought we believe, you know, he's running from somebody. he's just done something. you know, he might have hurt somebody or whatever, because, you know, this guy has been in and out of that one house over and over and over again, got him on video and everything. that is not sufficient for a citizen's arrest. this is not probable cause. this is, i don't know what in the world this guy is doing, but he's running down the street real fast. that's what this is. and remember, he's talking to the police about what he believed ahmaud arbery had done that day. he must have done something today. he's running down the street. let's chase after him with guns. that's what happened. driveway decision, greg mcmichael chooses to arm himself with a handgun. travis mcmichael chooses to arm himself with a pump shotgun. travis mcmichael had his cell phone, but greg mcmichael does not take his cell phone to him. all right. this is really important, ladies and gentlemen. on february 11th, the 91

. >> from greg mcmichael? >> no, your honor. >> and from mr. bryan. >> no, your honor. >> the defendants are to remain in the custody of the sheriff and we are adjourned. thank you. >> so court is adjourned. you will see all three men being taken into custody, custody of the sheriff as the judge just said. again, all three men convicted of felony murder in the killing of ahmaud arbery. although, the counts differ for the three men. let's try to figure out what exactly happened there. danny, the big headline, travis mcmichael, the man who pulled the trig r, held the gun, pulled the trigger, found guilty of all nine counts. his father not found guilty of malice murder. that's count one. why would the jury decide that? >> that's an interesting result. what the jury is saying is that travis mcmichael committed felonies. those felonies resulted in the death of ahmaud arbery and that he intended at least with malice as that's defined in the law to shoot and kill ahmaud arbery. what the jury concluded apparently as to his father was that he was guilty

greg mcmichael pulled no trigger. how could the state seek a conviction for malice murder as greg stood in the bed of the pickup truck on the phone with 911 as the fatal shots were fired as a party to the crime? told you about the law that the judge will give you. if someone intentionally helps or aids or procures or hires or assists in the commission of a crime, they can be as guilty as the principal, as the person who fired the shots. but what is so very different about count 1 is that it's malice murder. it requires the desire and the intent to kill, the deliberate intention to take the life of another human being, where all of the circumstances of the killing show that an individual acted with an abandoned and malignant heart. the state will have to be asking you to find that greg mcmichael advised or encouraged travis mcmichael, his son, to take the life of ahmaud arbery because that's what he wanted to do. for no reason other than to see that young man die and to see him die at the hands of his own son. and to d

where what were they for travis mcmichael or greg mcmichael? so now we're going to talk about the charges in the indictment. i'm going to make a suggestion to you. this may help you. start at the bottom of the indictment, all right. in your deliberations, start with criminal intent at false imprisonment. it's just easier. work through that one, work your way on up, then to felony murder, then to malice murder. it's a suggestion. so what have we got? criminal attempt to commit a felony. what's an intent? that's when you form an act that constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of said crime. mr. brian pulled out of his driveway and ran him into a ditch. mr. arbery was able to keep running, right there, criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. this is actually what it says in the indictment. in violation of the personal liberty of mr. arbery, okay. guess what? we're citizens of the united states, right. question live here. we have personal liberty, because this is a free country. ot

that's greg mcmichael. we already passed that. now there's greg mcmichael in the back of the truck. now we know that he has a gun. i think at this point he's on the cell phone. but for mr. roddie bryan's vantage point, looking through this phone as he's trying to drive on a sunny day in his truck, how can mr. bryan know that greg mcmichael has a gun or that he's drawn it. he can't. go ahead. go to 1:21. play to 1:21. all right. this is 1:21. you can see mr. arbery. you can see how far back mr. bryan is. and you can see mr. arbery going to the left momentarily. and way over here, and i promise not to touch the screen. this little fuzzy black thing here, this silhouette, is travis mcmichael. where on this video -- putting aside the fact that mr. bryan is not going to have as good a view driving on a sunny day in his car. from this video alone, where is mr. travis mcmichael's shotgun? roddie bryan can't see any weapon. he has no reason to know that these men are armed. and at this point, there's 20 seconds left in this video. we're just going to go ahead and play it. and you tell me, i

greg mcmichael pulled no trigger. how could the state seek a conviction for malice murder as greg stood in the bed of the pickup truck on the phone with 911 as the fatal shots were fired? as a party to the crime. you were told about the law that the judge will give you. if someone intentionally helps or aids or procures or hires or assists in the commission of a crime, they can be as guilty as the principal, as the person who fired the shots, but what is so very different about count someone that it's malice murder. it requires the desire and the intent to kill, the deliberate intention to take the life of another human being where all of the circumstances of the killing show that an individual acted with an abanned and malignant heart. the state will have to be asking you to find that greg mcmichael advised or encouraged travis mcmichael, his son, to take the life of ahmaud arbery because that's what he wanted to do. for no reason other than to see that young man die and to see him die at hands of his own son, and to

that's greg mcmichael. we are past that. okay. greg mcmichael in the back of the truck. we know he has a gun. i think at this point he's on the cell again to, but from mr. roddy brian's vantage point, looking through his phone as he's trying to drive on a sunny day in his truck, how can mr. brian know that greg mcmichael has gun or that he's drawn it? he can't. go ahead. go to 1:21, play it to 1:21. all right. this is 1:21. you can see mr. car bury -- you can see how far back mr. brian is. and you can see mr. arbery going to the left momentarily. and way over here -- i promise not to touch the screen. this little fuzzy black thing here, this silhouette, is travis mcmichael. where on this video -- putting aside the fact that mr. brian is not going to have as good a view driving on a sunny day in his car, from this video alone, where is mr. travis mcmichael's shotgun? roddy brian can't see any weapon. he has no reason to know that these men are armed. and at this point, there is 20 seconds left in this video. we are just going to go ahead and play it. and you tell me in yo

we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count three, felony murder. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count four, felony murder. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count five, felony murder. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count six, aggravated assault. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count seven, aggravated assault, we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count eight, false imprisonment. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. count nine, criminal attempt to commit a felony. we, the jury, find the defendant greg mcmichael guilty. this 24th day of november, 2021. signed by the foreperson. as to william r bryan. in the superior court of glynn county, state of georgia. state of georgia versus william r bryan. the jury verdict form. count one, malice murder. we, the jury, find the defendant william r brian not guilty. count two, felony murder, we, the jury, find the defendant william r bryan not guilty. co

mcmichael. this is the first time they asked for evidence. >> yes, page pate, laura coates with us now. page, i'd like to ask your read and, again, with the proviso that a lot of things go on in the jury room, we can't know what's inside their head, your experience when a jury asks for evidence, particularly video evidence to be played back and the specific evidence they're talking about here, what is the significance? >> well, jim, as we were talking about earlier, i was surprised they had not asked to see a video and now they have. so that doesn't surprise me. i don't think it is they're trying to figure out what happened. i think what we have here, i've seen this many times in my own trials, is, one, two, three, we don't know how many people, but there is some disagreement about what happened in that critical moment that ahmaud arbery was shot. is there any justification for self-defense. you may have one or two people arguing there is evidence of self-defense, the others say i don't think so

. , we the jury find defendant, greg mcmichael guilty. count nine, criminal intent to commit a money, we the jury find the defendant, greg mcmichael, guilty. this 24th day of november, 2021, signed -- [inaudible] >> as to william r. bryan, in the superior court of glenn county, state georgia, state of georgia versus william r. bryan, cr2000433, count one, malice murder, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. count two, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant william r. bryan not guilty. count three, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant, william r. bryan, guilty. count four, felony murder, we the jury find the defendant, william r. bryan, guilty. count five, felony murder if, we the jury find defendant william r. bryan guilty. count six, aggravated assault, we the jury find defendant, william r. bye yarntion not guilty. count seven, aggravated assault, we the jury find the defendant, william r. bye yarntion guilty. count eight, false imprison. , we the jury find the defendant, william r. bryan, guilty. count nine, crimin

we the jury find the defendant, greg mcmichael, guilty. count three, felony murder. we the jury find the defendant, william r. bryan, guilty. >> reporter: after a little more than 11 hours in a quiet room, jurors came out and convicted the three men who murdered ahmaud arbery in february of last year. a killing that prosecutors say would have never happened if the 25-year-old were white. inside the courtroom, the faces of two mothers filled with tears. the mother of travis mcmichael, who fired the fatal shots. and the mother of ahmaud arbery, who never stopped pushing authorities to find justice for her son. arbery's father let out such a scream for joy, the judge had him removed from the courtroom. >> guilty. >> oh! >> reporter: they were feeling that same joy outside the courthouse. people told us it feels a little safer tonight to be black in georgia. >> i was jumping up and down, like, i was -- i'm happy, i'm happy. finally, we got justice. >> reporter: travis mcmichael, seen here leaving court in shackles, was convicted of all nine charges against him, including

we the jury find the defendant, greg mcmichael, guilty. count three, felony murder. we the jury find the defendant, william r. bryan, guilty. >> reporter: after a little more than 11 hours in a quiet room, jurors came out and convicted the three men who murdered ahmaud arbery in feburary of last year. a killing that prosecutors say would have never happened if the 25-year-old were white. inside the courtroom, the faces of two mothers filled with tears. the mother of travis mcmichael, who fired the fatal shots. and the mother of ahmaud arbery, who never stopped pushing authorities to find justice for her son. arbery's father let out such a scream for joy, the judge had him removed from the courtroom. >> guilty. >> oh! >> reporter: they were feeling that same joy outside the courthouse. people told us it feels a little safer tonight to be black in georgia. >> i was jumping up and down, like, i was -- i'm happy, i'm happy. finally, we got justice. >> reporter: travis mcmichael, seen here leaving the court in shackles, was convicted of all nine charges against him, inclu

you have photos from the scenes showing greg mcmichael talking to investigators. you have a community worried they would have nonguilty verdicts even in the face of what they saw as overwhelming evidence. you're seeing jubilation behind me, and katy, absolute relief. >> it is extremely intense. ck, you know georgia law, you're a trial lawyer. have you ever experienced a case where the scene of the crime was not secured, wasn't investigated, that the men were able to go home with their pickup trucks? those pickup trucks were never searched in the aftermath of this crime. >> that was clear obstruction of justice. and for it to have been directed by the district attorney, by the lead prosecutor, was absolutely unacceptable. that's why she is facing a trial herself. but i think what we have to take, the sense of relief, the sense of justice being served, not just for the arbery family. it means so much for this community. i represent reverend jesse jackson, have for 34 years. i represent the justice coalition. both reverend jackson, rainbow push, the defense attorney

you're talking about greg mcmichael. he's 65 years old. frankly, that might be the extend of his life by the time he's eligible for parole. so there's 30 years that they need to serve. there will be appeal. i'm sure bob you feel the same way, i was floored at how the defense tried to dehumanize mr. arbery. i was so angry when they focused on his toenails. what are you doing? if you are -- that's one way to inflame a injury, to dehumanize a murder victim. i love being on panels. you're an amazing lawyer. you're the chief homicide bureau. you know the prosecutor. the fatal flaw for any defense attorney to do is to dew he mannize the victim. >> quick question for bob. do you think that that actually clinched the deal for the prosecution here? you think that misstep by the prosecution, do you think it clinched the deal for the defense that misstep by the prosecution? dehumanizing arbery in the middle of the trial. the mother was there. she audibly gasped. probably offended the jurors. >> the comment about the toenails was extremely gratuitous

travis mcmichael was on the couch. greg mcmichael, you saw, he can't even see down the road. there's that trailer there. remember the drone video? this was not a citizens arrest. not present where any crime was committed. the suggestion that ahmaud committed a crime is based on what? not immediate knowledge. speculation. specu speculation. how do we know? because of the defendants' own words to the police. wanting to question ahmaud demonstrates uncertainty. hey, where are you coming from? they don't know where he's coming from. what are you doing? they don't know what he's doing. remember mr. bryan, what did you steal? they don't know what he's done. they don't know why he's out there running. they don't have immediate knowledge. they have no knowledge. they have speculation because he's running down the street. wanting to question ahmaud demonstrates a lack of immediate knowledge, which is required, required under the citizens arrest law. because it is required, that means this was not a lawful citizens arrest. remember what greg mcmichael said? did this guy break into this

, because of the choices they made. >> this is a very difficult day for travis mcmichael and greg mcmichael. these are two men who honestly believed that what they were doing was the right thing to do. however, a glenn county jury has spoken. they have found them guilty, and they will be sentenced. >> the attorney for william "roddie" bryan, who recorded the killing on his cell phone thinks his client's conviction will be overturned. he was the target for sharp criticism for objecting to african american pastors in the courtroom. >> i've made all the apologies in this case that i plan to. now, when this is all over and the dust settles, i will probably reach out to people in town that i've known for a long time. maybe we're still friends, maybe not. but my job is to represent my client and i'm not going to apologize for that. >> joining us now is a criminal defense attorney and former senior homicide prosecutor and joins me now from new york. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so the jury found all three white men guilty of murder in the killing of ahmaud arbery. th

. >> reporter: the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william r. brian r. in a trial where race and racism takes center stage, the all white jury heard two different accounts how a black man was chased and killed by three white men running in a coastal georgia neighborhood. >> he started to take off running a. pick-up truck goes to follow him. >> reporter: the lead prosecutor described aushry under attack. who say he had committed a crime. >> in this case all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions r. not on fact, not on evidence, on assumptions. and they made decisions in their driveways based on those assumptions that took a young man's life. >> reporter: travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael and a neighborhood i neighbor william roddey bryant, junior, are facing life in prison on murder and other charges if convicted. brian captured the killing on his cell phone. in their opening statements, prosecutors played the video, among those watching and listening in the courtroom is aubrey's mother who said she had never s

murder but guilty on all others. -- greg mcmichael was was guilty on malice murder but guilty on all other charges. >> even though we are clapping and cheering and crying, family still devastated. they are missing ahmaud. reporter: hours into deliberations, the jury asking to view the video again. at the heart of the trial, the question of whether travis and gregory mcmichael, along with william roddie bryan junior acted in self-defense under a now repealed citizen arrest law. the prosecution arguing against that notion sing the three were the aggressors and went after arbery because he was black. the police say he never took anything. the family of ahmaud arbery, and during the trial process from start to finish. hearing and watching arbery's final moments. with the verdict now in, they begin journey to healing. >> reporter: today's convictions carry a mandatory life sentence in prison. dan: stay with abc news for much more on today's verdicts in reaction coming up at 5:30 on world news tonight with david muir. ama: today's traffic is bad is expected. we will show you the condition

>>> tonight -- >> by the jury find the defendant travis mcmichael, guilty. greg mcmichael, guilty. william r. bryan, guilty. >> the jury decides the fate of the men who killed ahmaud arbery. the joy and relief outside the courthouse. >> we have a lot of injustice, but finally we got justice. the victim's mother. her message for the mcmichael family. >> not only did my family lose, their family ost as well. >> and his father's hope. >> i knew definitely it was going down. >> this special edition of "nightline," "justice for ahmaud," will be right back. you don't get much time for yourself. so when you do, make it count with crest pro-health. it protects the 8 areas dentists check for a healthier mouth. the #1 toothpaste brand in america. crest. ♪ >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. one of the defense attorneys said today travis mcmichael and his father, quote, truly believed they were doing the right thing to protect their neighbors and friends, end zo quote. but the jury deciding the fate of the three men who killed ahmaud arbery did not agree. >> all rise for the jury. >

this is a very difficult day for travis mcmichael and greg mcmichael. these are two men who honestly believed that what they were doing was the right thing to do. however, a glen county jury has spoken. they have found them guilty. they will be sentenced. that is a very disappointing and sad verdict for myself and for bob and for our team, but we also recognize that this is a day of celebration for the arbery family. we cannot tear our eyes away from the way they feel about this. they feel they have gotten justice today. we respect that. we honor that. because we honor this jury trial system. >> do you all have any questions? >> do you plan to appeal? >> yes, absolutely. >> what was mr. mcmichael's reaction to the verdict? >> we haven't had a chance to talk to him yet. he was taken back to the glenn county jail. he was very stoic. i was right next to him feeling his body next to mine, and was ready for him to react, and i really didn't feel any reaction. he's a strong man. he understood the potential consequences in this, and whatever he was feeling, he

she advised greg mcmichael who called her at the scene of the murder -- to not -- to go home and wash his hands and get rid of the evidence. she told the police officers to stand down and devastating. she obstructed the scene. >> ck? ck, i think something is maybe playing on your computer. did we get that -- did that stop? okay. so we don't have it. danielle, that same question and what you think the message is here in the prosecution of this prosecutor. >> a lot of people are saying accountability was delivered yesterday to the ahmaud arbery family. not necessarily justice. it is because there are loose ends here that have to be tied up. there's so many missteps here, including jackie johnson, the prosecutor on the case and must be brought to justice. the relationship with gregory mcmichael played in the judgment. i applaud the attorney general carr for demanding an investigation into her conduct and not only that but the conduct of george barnhill, a prosecutor assigned to this case. why did the ahmaud arbery family have to jump over so many hoops? why did they have to jump over the

you can hear greg mcmichael saying, quote, there's a black male running down the street. why would they want to listen to just that part? >> that really goes to the heart of the case, doesn't it? the whole point here is what motive do they have to think there's a rhyme? what motive do they have in terms of racial. what's your emergency? black guy running down the street. not really an emergency, racial motive there. it's very important that they're looking at that. i agree with joey, it's an interesting juxtaposition. one, i don't like holiday verdicts as a prosecutor, but if i'm the prosecution here, i don't want them looking at that last moment where there's this struggle and encounter because that does go to self-defense. it want them looking at what led up to that. i would like them to review the evidence of how they followed him, how they boxed him in, the earlier encounters. that's the big picture of them being the aggressors, planning to find him, to hunt him down, trap him that way. but, on the other hand, when you juxtapose that moment, they're looking at the two

. >> the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william r. bryan -- >> reporter: in a trial where race and racism take center stage, the nearly all-white jury heard two very different accounts of how a 25-year-old black man, ahmaud arbery, was chased and killed by three white men as he was running in a coastal georgia neighborhood. >> mr. arbery takes off running and the pickup truck goes to follow him. >> reporter: in their opening statement, the lead prosecutor described arbery as under attack by the three defendants, who say they believed that he had committed a crime. >> in this case, all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions. not on facts, not on evidence, on assumptions. and they made decisions in their driveways, based on those assumptions, that took a young man's life. >> reporter: travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael and a neighbor, william "roddie" bryan jr. are facing life in prison on murder and other charges if convicted. it was bryan who captured the killing on his cell phone. in their

greg mcmichael with the hip replacement, heart attack, stroke, sitting in the back of that truck. it was was afraid for him. if this was a case about wanting to murder a black jogger, if this was really a case about that, travis would not have reacted the way he reacted. it was described to you by brooke perez who talked about how totally freaked out he looked, how totally discombobulated he was, and she was right. the officer is saying just breathe, just breathe. just take a minute, just breathe. just calm down. i know. just hold on a second. it was from that spot to this spot within just an hour and a half of what had happened where he would be brought for several hours of questioning. he was afraid. he was in shock. his adrenaline was still going through his body. you guys know how fear and worry works. you sat here through jury selection all day and probably felt that just by getting asked questions for an hour. travis testified even though he didn't have to, the judge will -- will give you the law that close travis in sort of a shield of silence. you don't have to testify. yo

because greg mcmichael told the police this. stop or i'll blow your [ bleep ] head off. >> reporter: in the defense's opening statements, travis mcmichael's attorney portrays a very different story. >> this case is about duty and responsibility. >> reporter: describing travis mcmichael not as a vigilante but as a ten-year veteran of the coast guard who felt a duty and responsibility to protect his neighborhood using his training. >> it's scenario-based training. you are rely ongoing muscle memory. >> the defense maintains arbery was seen on video on multiple different occasions inside a neighborhood home under construction without permission. including, the day that arbery was killed. >> the evidence shows overwhelmingly that travis mcmichael honestly and lawfully attempted to detain ahmaud arbery according to the law and shot and killed him in self-defense. >> reporter: gregory mcmichael's attorney, also, argued his client's actions were well within the law. >> greg mcmichael was absolutely sure this was the guy. the same guy h

and then i want to make sure that you all understand the 911 call made by greg mcmichael on february 23rd, the entire call is about five minutes. the first part of it was played and then there's some deadup and follow-up to see if somebody's on the line. if i could just get you to raise your hand at the point we no longer need to listen to that 911 call and we'll stop it at that point. do you understand? >> yes, sir. >> does everybody understand where we are? >> yes, judge. >> i understand that you were requesting that each of the videos be played three times each. >> that's correct. >> let's start with the original video picking up from when the phone comes up. that would be 190, a shortened version of exhibit 190. yes, yeah, you can sit wherever you are most comfortable. it's on the record we'll say where we're playing from too. >> yes, judge. >> for the record, the state is publishing state's exhibit 190 beginning at 1:08. [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] >> all right. all right. for the retired, that was 1

greg mcmichael was found guilty on all charges, including malice, murder, his father, travis, was found guilty of felony murder. and a 3rd man who joined the chase and filmed the killing william bryan, was also found guilty of felony murder. they pursued the 25 year old black man who was out jogging with their truck. let the word go floor of all over the world. let's better jewelry over levin white one black ramos in the deed sounds good up in the court room has said that black lab do, man, a deadly new wave of crone of iris cases continues to sweep through europe. several countries are seeing record, high case counts, and the e. u has made a u turn to recommend booster shots. the head of the public health agency now says 3rd jobs it should be considered for all adults. the ethiopian prime minister arby ahmed says that he's heading to the front line to lead his troops as fighting between the government and rebels escalates rebels from t gr, i have pushed into the amara and a far regions and down a major road running to the capital r this about those are the top stories, stay with us. wi

defense attorney laura hogue, who represents greg mcmichael, the former police officer, blamed arbery's own actions for his death. and she drew outrage over these comments. >> turning ahmaud arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores. in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long dirty toenails. amy: hogue's comment drew audible gasps from the courtroom. ahmaud arbery's mother, wanda cooper-jones, got up and briefly left the trial. she later condemned hogue's remarks. >> she described ahmaud as his long legs and his dirty long toenails. that was beyond rude. regardless of what kind of toenails he had, what size lexie had -- gs he had, that was still my son and my son actually proffers like. amy: taken together, gregory mcmichael, travis mcmichael and william bryan face nine counts that could see them sentenced to life in prison. in yemen, the saudi-led military coalition has launched air raids on the capital send with -- sanaa, with reports of massive explosions in the city's northern neighborhoo

greg mcmichael and his son travis are two of the . defendants their lawyers say they saw ar bury enter a nearby construction site and they thought he stole something. today the jury watched the deposition of the man the killing of ahmaud arbery february 23rd he was jogging near his home in brunswick, georgia, when three men allegedly chased him down in their trucks and shot and killed him. greg mcmichael and his son travis are two of the defendants their lawyers say they saw arbery enter a nearby construction site and they thought he stole something today the jury watched the deposition of the man who owned that house that arbery entered at the center of all of this larry english is his name. the deposition was taped back in september and aired in court today because the lawyers say english was too sick to testify in person. in this jurors saw surveillance video of arbery walking around the construction site, not once, but multiple instances before the day he was killed in october, november, december of 2019 and earlier in february of

least one occasion, he spoke to him about the trespassing issues in hopes that greg mcmichael could help police identify the person they were looking for. the defense claims the mcmichaels and bryan were trying to make a lawful citizen's arrest after becoming concerned about a rise in property crime in the neighborhood, and they maintained travis mcmichael acted in self-defense when he shot and killed arbery on february 23rd, 2020. the prosecution has acknowledged that arbery was caught on camera on several occasions at neighbor's unsecured home, but said arbery was never seen taking anything. the property owner larry english said he never saw arbery take anything either. he also denied ever asking greg mcmichael to confront anyone on his property. >> [inaudible] did you call mcmichaels to ever confront anybody on your site? >> no. >> now, jon, certainly some tensions outside of the courtroom. the reverend al sharpton is calling on faith leaders to meet him at the glenn county courthouse next thursday following comments from the defense attorney that some have deemed as racist. >> w

guilty on all counts >> to defendant greg mcmichael, guilty >> gregory mcmichael convicted on eight of nine counts. >> we the jury find the defendant william r. brian guilty. >> reporter: on six of nine counts inside the courtroom, aubrey's mother appeared overcome by emotion. outside the courtroom -- >> my heart is pounding with gladness, excitement pro crowds erupted and ahmaud aubrey's mother gave thanks. >> i never saw this day back in 2020 i never thought this day would come but god is good. >> reporter: while brunswick celebrates, the defendants now wait to be sentenced dan scheneman. nbc news >>> wisconsin residents are honoring the six killed at the town's annual christmas parade when an suv tore through the crowd. we're learning about the youngest victim. an 8-year-old boy. megan fitzgerald has more. >> reporter: communities shatter as more details emerge about the youngest victim in waukesha. 8-year-old jackson sparks was marching through the parade. jackson undergoing emergency brain surgery, passing away on tuesday. the family calling it a tremendous loss. his 12-year-ol

. >> the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william bryan. >> reporter: three white men charged with murdering a 25-year-old black man ahmaud ar arbery. in their opening statement prosecutors played a cell phone containing the final moments of arbery's life. among those watching and listening was arbery's mother, weeping and overwhelmed, she said later it was the first time she'd watched the video in its entirety. >> i decided to remain and get familiar with what happened to ahmad. >> reporter: inside the court on friday the nearly all white jury heard two different accounts of how ahmaud arbery was chased and killed near brunswick, a coastal town in georgia. >> we just know that he was running from all three defendants for five minutes. >> reporter: prosecutors argue the defendants cornered and fatally shot arbery without evidence he had done anything wrong. >> in this case all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions. not on facts, not on evidence, on assumptions, and they made decisions in their driveways based on those assumpti

travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and neighbor william roddi bryan. the jury just requested to review and just reviewed three -- just wanted to see a piece of video evidence and a 9 911 call. >> a shocking moment in that courtroom to see video repeatedly of the shooting death of ahmaud arbery. let's begin in brunswick, georgia, cnn national correspondent sara sidner outside the courthouse. what are you hearing from others perhaps trying to judge the significance of this moment here with the jury requesting this particular evidence? >> reporter: the one thing that you can say when you have a jury that is asking for evidence is that they are doing their job. they are trying to go over the evidence. they're trying to look through it and be conscientious. and these are, if you looked at that video which i know is extremely difficult to watch, especially over and over again, but it is their job to try and determine what happened there. all perceptions aside, you have the video, you can go over the video and you can discuss all of the evidence including the

where is travis mcmichael? he's on the sofa inside the house. where's greg mcmichael? this all started when i saw him running down the street. >> reporter: the racially charged trial was inflamed by the attorney by william bryan. goff tried several times to get the black pastors showing up to support arbery's mother kicked out of court. >> we don't want any more black pastors coming in here. >> reporter: some found themselves face-to-face with protefrts, some armed to the hilt. prompting attorney goff to call for a mistrial. >> i agree with the concern that is out there. with regard to the jurors having exposure to anything that may be going on outside, whatever is going on outside, i have -- it has not been brought to my attention on a security level. >> reporter: and so the trial continues. a mistrial has not yet been granted for the many times that a mistrial has been called for by the defense. there was a moment that really sent arbery's mother out of the courtroom. she was very upset. listening to defense attorney laura hogue, who is the attorney for greg mcmichae

you heard greg mcmichael say, you heard travis mcmichael say. this is my notes as i was writing as he was talking in front of the jury with the state present during trial. i do this because it captures what's said on the stand in a visual way and the jury can understand it. i don't see what the objection is. the state can talk about and type up, but i can't show what i wrote down during the testimony? that doesn't make any sense. >> i understand now what that was. i agree, mr. sheffield did write those things down on a big piece of paper and he chooses now to show it this way. the state is okay with that. the problem becomes the next photo of satilla shores, no one testified to that photo. >> are you objecting satilla shores is a neighborhood with a neighborhood sign out front? what's objectionable about that? it's just a chapter heading of what i'm going to be presenting. >> judge, my fear here is just that i'm going to have to october to every single slide when it comes up where no one's testified to i want or information no one testified to.

they asked the review the 911 call when greg mcmichael is sort of explain that what the emergency was was, quote, there is a black male running down the street. called 911 and said there is a black male running down the street. that was his emergency. they asked the review that. i wonder when you heard that what you thought of that. >> yeah. well, i actually thought it was a good sign if by good we mean -- and we do mean conviction here. i mean, it is, i think a day for -- not exactly celebration. some kind of solemnity, but this was a very, very fast deliberation. nine. >> chas against all of them. with different kind of guilt profiles and they come back back in 11 hours. to me, the most consistent interpretation was one or two jurors really wanted to be persuaded that there was, in fact, as the prosecutor had urged, no possible citizen's arrest. and that final 911 call, as opposed to the others, to me, was very strong evidence against them. because he specifically said, he's running. he wasn't seeing him do any crime. the place was abandoned. if you are looking hard, that, to me, wa

greg mcmichael, his son travis mcmichael and neighbor william "roddie" bryan were convicted on charges of felony murder for chasing and killing arbery in georgia last year. bryan and greg mcmichael were acquitted of malice murder, which is connected with intent to kill. the verdict was closely watched around the country. >> the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, case number cr000433. jury verdict form. count one, malice murder. we the jury find the defendant travis mcmichael guilty. guilt >> nawaz: the three could face life sentences in prison. before video of the shooting was leaked, it was more than two months before anyone was arrested. ahmaud arbery, who was never armed, was shot in february 2020 while he was jogging in brunswick, georgia. the mcmichaels' pursued him in a pick-up truck and bryan joined them moments later. they claimed arbery resembled a suspect in a series of break- ins. after a struggle, three shots were fired, two of which struck arbery in the chest. moments after the verdict was read today, a crowd erupted in cheers outside the glynn county courthouse. an

right now prosecutors are questioning the officer who interviewed one of the defendants, greg mcmichael, on the day of the shooting. >> in the last hour, county police officer jake brandonberry testified his interview with mcmichael was continually interrupted by his supervisors, even by bystanders. >> at any point in time was greg mcmichael isolated from speaking with any of the other parties there? >> no. >> was he told to sit on the curb and don't move? >> no. >> was he put in the back of a patrol car? >> no. >> you have unknown people coming up and interrupting and you're trying to get a statement from this person. >> yes, ma'am. >> let's speak to attorney elchrist stewart. how do you think the prosecution has handled the case? >> effectively so far. you know, we were disappointed with the jury with only one african-american, but, you know, despite that, your color doesn't mean you can't see justice. >> hmm. >> based on what we just heard and some of the testimony we saw this morning, the fact that there were these other people sort of jumping in, talking, supervisors, as the office

was greg mcmichael isolated from speaking with any of the other parties there? >> no. >> was he told to sit on the curb and don't move? >> no. >> was he put in the back of a patrol car? >> no. >> you have unknown people coming up and interrupting and you're trying to get a statement from this person. >> yes, ma'am. >> the officer's body camera video also being entered into evidence during today's proceedings. we'll continue to follow those. >>> now to a report you'll see only on cnn. black and brown families across america are crying out for help as their loved ones remain missing. so many families are saying they have to fight and beg for police to give their full attention to their loved ones' cases, even taking matters into their own hands. >> reporter: at the break of dawn in the middling of the arizona desert, a crowd of strangers meet for one purpose. >> you guys coming out here to help me out, i really appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. >> reporter: to help another stranger, a father desperately searching for his 24-year-old son, daniel robinson

he had blood on, i believe it was his left hand. >> did greg mcmichael tell you what happened, and i'm going to have you do the specific quote of what he said. >> he said i was -- i was in my driveway working on my -- i'm reup holstering some boat cushions in the back of my truck. i look up and this guy -- this guy comes hauling ask down the street. i'm talking dead run. he's not jogging. >> and line 19. >> i haul as and get my magnum. >> reporter: they are accused of chasing and killing arbery while he was jogging in a brunswick, georgia neighborhood in 2020. they pled not guilty on all charges. police investigator parker marcy, the second witness at tuesday's proceedings, detailed what mcmichael told him during a later interview at the police station about chasing down arbery in his truck. >> what does he specifically said. >> i said stop. you know, i'm blow your [ bleep ] head off or something. i was trying to convey with this guy we were not playing. >> reporter: once the three defendants were able to catch up with arbery, he tells detective marcy. . >> of course, you know, it's pr

in her closing argument for greg mcmichael yesterday attorney laura hoge argued it was arbery's choice to run combined with his appearance. arbery's mom later spoke to reporters. >> no one but ahmaud arbery made the decision not to stop when travis's truck rolled up beside him. to wait to tell the police what he was doing there or just plain run away into the woods. i realize more than any of you what an unpopular thing that is to say, but in a courtroom with greg mcmichael facing the charge of murder, somebody's got to say it. >> turning ahmaud arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought ahmaud arbery to satilla shores with his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long dirty toenails. >> that was just beyond rude, regardless of what kind of toenails he had, what size legs he had, that was still my son, and my son actually was running for his life. >> the defendants are charged in the shooting death of the 25-year-old black man after chasing him as he jogged. they claim they suspected him of burglary. >>> the new york state's judi