New details on this:
1.) On October 25th black man captured on video on the property.
2.) On November 18th black man captured on video on the property.
3.) On December 17th black man captured on video on the property.
4.) On Feburary 11th black man captured on video on the property and eyewitnessed by Travis McMichael, who called 911. McMichael was clearly shaken in the audio of the 911 call.
5.) On Feburary 23rd, Ahmaud Arbery is captured on video on the property by two video cameras, one eyewitness calls 911, one other eywitness is seen watching him on external video camera.
6.) Video clips of the intruders (and there were others, including children and a white man and woman) were circulated to the neighbors by the homeowner in effort to identify the trespassers. He was also in contact with the police on several occasions. He did not want the trespassers on his property and was attempting to stop it. At some unspecified date the homeowner had $2,500 worth of fishing equipment stolen from the garage of the house.
7.) The external camera that captured Aubrey on Feburary 23rd belonged to a neighbor who had set it up specificly to help the homeowner catch the trespassers in his under-construction home. This neighbor was the one who called 911 on Feburary 23rd.
8.) A police officer (as I noted earlier) had contacted the elder McMichael to ask him to keep an eye on the property. One or both of the McMichaels may or may not have been among the neighbors shown the video clips in an attempt to identify the tresspassers I have a hunch they were, but if not, there was the eyewitness incident with the younger McMichael.
So the neighborhood was actively alert for trespassers on the property, which had once been robbed, on at least four earlier occasions a black man had been recorded ir witnessed on the property, and on Feburary 23rd Aubrey was pursued immedietly following direct witness of him not innocently jogging but walking up to the property and going inside for several minutes.
You can make an argument that the McMichaels should not have confonted Audrey and instead stayed back at let the police handle it. You can make an argument that they should have not brought guns along with them, allowing a struggle over the gun to happen. What you can’t (with good faith) argue is that 1.) there was an assumption that he was guilty “because he was black”, but because a black man had been recorded on the property on several occasions, the neighbors were activity watching for one, and he was witnessed doing exactly what they were looking out for moments earlier and 2.) that Aubrey didn’t know exactly why people were chasing him.
This might have been the first time that Aubrey tresspassed in English’s home, but if so he couldn’t have picked a worse powder keg to stumble into, and it is a perfect illustration of why you should not trespass unwanted in other people’s houses, occupued or not, even if you are “just curious.”
Also, in an ironic twist, the cell phone video of the actual killing? That was released by the McMicheals themselves because they thought it would exonerate them from any accusations of racism or murder.