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Lawyer Gregory McMichael said Ahmaud Arbery killing “is not just an act of violent racism”

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“The truth will reveal that this is not just a violent act of racism,” Frank Hogue told a news conference. “Greg McMichael did not commit murder.”

Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were charged with assault and massacre in the death of Arbery on February 23, who was killed while jogging outside Brunswick, Georgia. Travis McMichael is a shooter suspect in this case.

Hogue, along with his wife, Laura Hogue, represented Gregory McMichael. The couple is part of a criminal law firm in Macon, Georgia.

“Our client has not been sued the same as his son,” said Laura Hogue. “He was charged with being a party to a crime, which is a Georgian statute that holds someone who helps or instigates the crime, with the same responsibility as the individual who actually committed the crime.”

The shooting incident was captured on video which became public last week.

“There have been a number of videos that have been released,” Laura Hogue said. “There are a number of photographs. There are a number of notes. All of that must be assimilated, and the important thing is that the time has been determined, so that every second, our hope is, will unite the truth about what happened on the 23rd.

“We know a few other important facts, facts that point to a very different narrative than what brought you here today.”

Hogue said a preliminary hearing and a bond hearing would be scheduled for Gregory McMichael “very soon.”

Lawyers for Travis McMichael made a similar comment on Thursday.

Arbery was jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood outside Brunswick when he was shot dead on February 23, according to the Glynn County Police Department incident report.

Elder McMichael told police that he thought Arbery looked like a suspect in a series of recent burglaries, according to the incident report.

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Gregory McMichael took a gun while his son took a shotgun and they chased Arbery in a truck, his father told police, according to the report.

When they followed him, Travis McMichael got out of the truck with a shotgun and a battle ensued between him and Arbery, according to reports and videos of the incident. Gregory McMichael was in the truck bed when the shooting occurred, according to reports and videos.

Arbery was shot three times, including twice in the chest, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s autopsy report obtained by CNN.

Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested on May 7, two days after a 36-second video that appeared to show a deadly confrontation appeared on the internet.

Arbery’s family lawyer commented on the security video

The surveillance video from a house under construction seems to show Arbery on location several minutes before he was killed on February 23. In the video, a man can be seen walking around and not touching anything.

But other videos recorded at home have appeared.
The homeowner said there were no crimes committed at the house being built

A man who identified himself as Travis McMichael called 911 on February 11 and told the operator that he saw a man entering a house under construction, according to police reports. The surveillance video showing an African-American man on the property on February 11 was recorded by a motion sensor security camera installed by the property owner, Larry English, according to his lawyer, Elizabeth Graddy.

English told CNN that he could not identify the person he saw on the video after the 11 February incident. He did not report the incident to the police, he said.

In a new statement on Friday, Graddy said it appeared that the man in the February 11 video was also recorded at home last fall and on December 17. He said the man might come home to get water, because he was seen wiping his mouth. in the December 17 video. Graddy said there was a water source on the dock behind the house and a source near the front.

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“In his last recording captured on December 17, what sounded like water could be heard. He walked out of the house, walked casually, and disappeared from view,” Graddy said.

Lawyers for the Arbery family also said they did not know who the person was in the February 11 video.

On Friday, lawyers for the mother and father of Ahmaud Arbery, S. Lee Merritt, Benjamin Crump and L. Chris Stewart, issued statements about the video.

“We have reviewed a number of videos released by lawyers for homeowners that are being built,” the statement said. “We can confirm that Ahmaud Arbery appeared in one video, but we cannot confirm that he appeared in another video.”

The statement said there were people who were often at the construction site day and night but Ahmaud Arbery “seemed to be the only one considered a criminal.”

“We appreciate the homeowner who acknowledges that Mr. Arbery did not steal or damage anything on the property. That is the opinion of the homeowner, after watching Mr. Arbery’s movements on video, that he briefly stopped at the house being built to get drinking water from the sink. work, “according to the statement.

The new prosecutor ‘has a professional interaction’ with the suspect

Cobb District attorney Joyette Holmes, who was appointed to handle the case earlier this week, issued a statement Thursday saying that she had interacted with Gregory McMichael when she was an investigator for the Glynn County district attorney’s office.

Because of a change of place order, prosecutor Cobb tried a case in Brunswick in the fall of 2016 and used office space in the Glynn district attorney’s office, Holmes said.

“At that time, the Cobb trial team conducted professional interactions with Glynn County DA Office employees, including their investigator, Gregory McMichael,” Holmes wrote in his statement. “In addition, in the spring of 2017, an investigator who is now a former with our office communicates with McMichael to help find a witness who lives in Glynn County and is required to testify in the Cobb murder case. There is no ongoing relationship between the Deputy Chief Cobb ADA Jesse Evans and McMichael. “

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Holmes said he discussed his contact with Gregory McMichael with Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr before accepting the appointment

“Professional interactions between prosecution agents and even law enforcement are common and do not create legal or factual conflicts in continuing a case,” he said.

Mrs. Arbery, sister takes part in the virtual city hall

Ms. Ahmaud Arbery, Wanda Cooper, and sister, Jasmine Arbery, participated in a virtual town hall on Friday held to discuss “issues of social justice, racial differences and the criminal justice system in the United States,” according to a press release.

“Ahmaud Arbery is my sister,” said Jasmine Arbery. “Talking about it is like breathing fresh air. If you pay attention, I’m smiling now.”

Wanda Cooper thanked the younger participants at the town hall, saying, “You will be our voice in the future.”

The family did not talk about the legal aspects of this case. City Hall is hosted by Boys & Girls Clubs from Dane County, Georgia Coastal Community Action Authority Inc. and Madison365.

Correction: This article and headline have been updated to correct a quote from Frank Hogue, a lawyer for Gregory McMichael. The quote has no words and has been corrected.

Angela Barajas and Erica Henry from CNN contributed to this report.

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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.

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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.

Method Media Bermuda will present the documentary FABRIC: Portuguese History in Bermuda on Thursday, December 29 at the Underwater Research Institute of Bermuda.

A spokesperson said: “Method Media is proud to bring Bermuda Fabric: Portugal History to Bermuda for its 5th and 6th showing at the Bermuda Underwater Observatory. In November and December 2019, Cloth: A Portuguese Story in Bermuda had four sold-out screenings. Now that Bermuda has reopened after the pandemic, it’s time to bring the film back for at least two screenings.

“There are tickets Ptix.bm For $ 20 – sessions at 15:30 and 18:00. Both screenings will be followed by a short Q&A session.

Director and producer Milton Raboso says, “FABRIC is a definitive account of the Portuguese community in Bermuda and its 151 years of history, but it also places Bermuda, Acors and Portugal in the world history and the events that have fueled those 151 years.

“It took more than 10 years to implement FABRIC. The film was supported by the Minister of Culture, the Government of the Azores and private donors.

Bermuda Media Method [MMB] Created in 2011 by producer Milton Raposo. MMB has created content for a wide range of clients: Bermuda’s new hospital renovation, reinsurance, travel campaigns, international sports and more. MMB pays special attention to artistic, cultural and historical content.

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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.

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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.

Maestro Filipe Cunha, Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Braga, has been invited to conduct the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, as announced today.

According to a statement sent by O MINHO, “he will be the first Portuguese conductor to conduct this orchestra in its entire history.”

In addition to this orchestra, the maestro will also work with the Lyceo Mozarteum de la Habana Symphony Orchestra.

The concerts will take place on 4 and 12 March 2023 at the National Theater of Cuba in Havana.

In the words of the maestro, quoted in the statement, “these will be very beautiful concerts with difficult but very complex pieces” and therefore he feels “very motivated”.

From the very beginning, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 will be performed by an Italian pianist (Luigi Borzillo), whom the maestro wants to bring to Portugal later this year. In the same concert, Mendelshon’s First Symphony will be performed.

Then, at the second concert, in the company of the Mexican clarinetist Angel Zedillo, he will perform the Louis Sfora Concerto No. 2. In this concert, the maestro also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.

“This is an international recognition of my work. An invitation that I accept with humility and great responsibility. I was surprised to learn that I would be the first Portuguese member of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. This is a very great honor,” the maestro said in a statement.

“I take with me the name of the city of Braga and Portugal with all the responsibility that goes with it, and I hope to do a good job there, leaving a good image and putting on great concerts. These will be very special concerts because, in addition to performing pieces that I love, especially Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, I will be directing two wonderful soloists who are also my friends. It will be very beautiful,” concludes Filipe Cunha.

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