Defense attorney: Black protesters outside turned Ahmaud Arbery murder trial into 'public lynching' of white killers
The defense attorney for one of the men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery compared the prosecution to a "public lynching."
Attorney Kevin Gough, who is representing William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. in the trial, complained that Black protesters outside the Georgia courthouse were a violent mob seeking vigilante justice.
"This is what a public lynching looks like in the 21st Century," Gough said.
"Just because they haven't put a gallery up, they haven't put a podium up outside with a hangman's noose on it doesn't mean that this isn't a trial, despite the best efforts of this court, that this isn't a trial that's been affected by mob violence of a woke-left mob," Gough continued.
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"Whether people realize that they participated in that or not -- I like to think that the vast majority of people outside this courthouse really have no interest in anything but justice -- I want to believe that, from a lot of people out there I think that's true, but the perception is reality," Gough added, "and the media have fed that perception and created a reality, whether it's true or not, just like other people, to create a false narrative and the falsity of that narrative is very apparent in the trial of this case. That becomes the reality, That is what a mob-dominated trial looks like in the 21st century, and we're asking for a mistrial."
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