Tensions flare in Arbery death trial as Jesse Jackson visits

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A justice is denying requests to state a mistrial successful the lawsuit of 3 achromatic men charged with sidesplitting Ahmaud Arbery.

Tensions flared Monday arsenic the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the slain Black man's parents successful court.

Defense attorneys said jurors could person been tainted erstwhile they heard weeping successful the assemblage and saw the civilian rights icon sitting with Arbery's family.

Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied the requests and said it was "reprehensible" however a defence lawyer complained astir Black pastors successful the courtroom.

A cellphone video of Arbery's decease connected Feb. 23, 2020, deepened a nationalist outcry implicit radical injustice.

Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William R. Bryan person been charged with malice murder, 4 counts of felony murder, 2 counts of aggravated assault, mendacious imprisonment, and a transgression effort to perpetrate mendacious imprisonment.

They basal accused of shooting and sidesplitting Arbery, who was retired connected the tally connected Feb. 23.

In aboriginal May, the McMichaels were arrested.

According to the official indictment, Bryan filmed the brushwood betwixt the McMichaels and Arbery.

Ten weeks aft the shooting, the video was made public.

Two days later, the McMichaels were arrested.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Bryan a fewer weeks later.