Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery death

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A erstwhile Georgia authoritative has been indicted connected misconduct charges related to the sidesplitting of Ahmaud Arbery.

A expansive assemblage connected Thursday indicted erstwhile Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson connected charges of violating her oath of bureau and hindering a instrumentality enforcement officer.

News of the indictment comes aft Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr requested an probe past twelvemonth into section prosecutors’ handling of Arbery’s slaying.

Police did not initially apprehension Travis and Gregory McMichael for the alleged shooting that occurred connected Feb. 23. The begetter and lad remained escaped until the compartment telephone video that recorded the shooting was leaked to the public connected May 5. After a nationalist outcry, they were arrested 2 days later.

Arbery was fatally changeable successful February 2020 aft a achromatic begetter and lad equipped themselves and pursued the 25-year-old Black antheral aft spotting him moving successful their neighborhood.

One of the men, Gregory McMichael, had worked for Johnson arsenic an researcher and called her aft the shooting.

He retired successful 2019, the Associated Press reported.

The McMichaels and the antheral who recorded the fatal shooting, William “Roddie” Bryan, are charged with execution and different crimes and are acceptable for trial, which volition statesman successful February 2022.

Johnson recused herself and called successful an extracurricular prosecutor.

Johnson did not instantly instrumentality a telephone message.