Georgia Jury Sees Video of Cop Telling White Man Who Chased Down and Shot Ahmaud Arbery That He Was ‘Going Home Today’ During Trial Against Prosecutor Accused of Obstructing Investigation

An hour after his son Travis shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery at close range, Greg McMichael called his former boss, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, seeking help.One hour after that, a Glynn County police investigator told Travis McMichael, “You’re going home today.” Ex-prosecutor Jackie Johnson on trial for obstruction police investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s murder. (Credit: Glynn County, Facebook)State prosecutors used the timeline of events on Feb. 23, 2020, to open their case against Johnson, charged with violating her oath of office, a felony, and a misdemeanor count of hindering police as they investigated Arbery’s killing.“She put the interest of her former chief investigator and her longtime friend ahead of a victim,” said John Fowler, a prosecutor for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office, which is trying the case. The McMichaels were convicted, along with neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, who filmed the father and son chasing Arbery down in their pickup truck, in 2021 of murdering the 25-year-old jogger. The McMichaels said they believed Arbery was responsible for a series of neighborhood thefts, though no stolen items were found in his possession. Arbery, unarmed and cornered, was shot by Travis McMichael after a brief scuffle.Johnson denies she meddled...