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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