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Men face sentencing for federal hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery's murder

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GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. - Months after they were sentenced to life in prison for murder, the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood faced a second round of criminal penalties Monday for federal hate crimes committed in the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man.U.S.

District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood scheduled back-to-back hearings to individually sentence each of the defendants, starting with Travis McMichael, who blasted Arbery with a shotgun after the street chase initiated by his father and joined by a neighbor.Arbery’s killing on Feb.

23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

Those two cases also resulted in the Justice Department bringing federal charges.LAWYER: ARBERY SHOOTER FEARS HE'LL BE KILLED IN STATE PRISONWhen they return to court Monday in Georgia, McMichael, his father Greg McMichael and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan face possible life sentences after a jury convicted them in February of federal hate crimes, concluding that they violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because of his race.

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