Ahmaud Arbery, Woke Evangelicals, and Biblical Justice

Opening Thanks, Travel Update, and Podcast Setup

Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast. My name is John Harris. It is good to be back today in my wife's laundry room, which is where all the serious hard work gets done around here, recording this podcast.

You know, I don't have the cool stuff. You know, some guys who do my kind of commentary, like A .D. Robles, right? He's got a really cool setup in his basement. He's got a bunker, basically, with, he's got cool music, grungy effect on his camera, supplies in the background, he's raising chickens, and I'm living here temporarily, at least.

I mean, that's kind of where I'm at, by the way. I mean, I like that stuff, but I'm here living the suburbanite, impoverished academic lifestyle. And so my wife graciously allows me to use her laundry room for this podcast.

So here we are, and you know, it was a good trip, though, and I appreciate your prayers. I was gone for a few days, I'm back, and I will tell you more about this. You will find out in the coming weeks what I was up to, but it's not cheap to fly to the location I flew to, hotel, rental car, food, all of that stuff.

It was totally worth it, by the way, and you'll find out more later, but I just wanna thank you for your prayers and for those who contributed. Enemies Within the Church paid for my hotel. He hasn't given me permission to say his name, but you know, a certain donor paid for my flight, and then, you know, your Patreon support really helped me with the other expenses, and so I'm just beyond grateful to you guys.

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I take the income, whatever income that I get from that, I put right back into the work that I'm doing here, and I know that's what matters to you, and so this is a team effort. You know, I know to put me in front of this microphone, in front of this camera, is a team effort.

It's not just me doing this, and so I acknowledge that. So while I was gone, this is the topic for today, and oh man, this really has been sticking in my craw here. We're gonna talk about the Ahmaud Arbery incident, and while I was gone, this whole thing blew up with woke evangelicals especially.

I mean, it's the whole woke crowd, but of course, I keep an eye more on the evangelical left, and I got in some trouble on Twitter. Some of you might know what I'm talking about. I'm gonna address that, but you know, guys, I wanna give you a big picture here for a second.

You know, Joe Carter had put out an article, I believe in the Gospel Coalition recently, last day or two, about conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are just so bad. We shouldn't believe them. We gotta be careful.

It's just so bad. Evangelicals or Christians, we have to distance ourselves from that, and I've talked to you guys before about conspiracy theories. Well, if you wanna talk about an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, it's the way that woke evangelicals are spinning this Ahmaud Arbery situation.

It's racism, it's white supremacy. He was just jogging while black. None of this, none of the evidence points to any of this. In fact, it points to the opposite of most of this. This interpretation is wrong, guys.

It's just wrong, and based on what we already know, and we haven't even let the due process take its course, but I want you to think about all the things that these woke evangelicals aren't talking about that aren't problems.

I mean, there's prayers across the country now, because I've heard some of them. I'm gonna show you some of them in churches, where they're just praying for this horrible, crummy American society that's racist and kills people because they're black, and it's just, we demand justice.

Someone who's as far away geographically in the country from Georgia as they could possibly be praying for this horrible country because of this local incident that took place in Georgia that hasn't even been, their verdict hasn't even been reached on.

What are they not paying attention to? They're not paying attention to our civil liberties being taken away. In fact, it's others. It's political conservatives who are fighting for those. It's not the evangelical industrial complex.

And what I mean by that, Big Eva, publishing companies, the moneyed evangelical, the moneyed class, those who constantly say that, you know, we gotta be so concerned about oppression, but they tend to be the ones that are actually powerful, the ones in control.

They are the ones pushing this narrative, hardcore, and those who listen to them. And they're not paying attention to other things. They're not paying attention to this whole situation with Michael Flynn and Obama's complicity.

I mean, you wanna talk about corruption on a national level, it's just, it's sickening. What about all the verified shootings that have taken place? I mean, there's, I'm gonna show you some of these, but in the last two years, there's been at least two joggers I know of, actual joggers, not like they're saying they're jogging after the fact, but they were jogging, who have been killed by illegal aliens in this country, and not a peep, not a peep from this crowd.

But now we're gonna raise the roof about this Ahmaud Arbery situation. And granted, guys, this is a very sad situation. It should break our hearts. When you see a video like that, that's the natural, if you don't have that reaction, then maybe you've watched a lot of movies, that's possible, we've been desensitized, but there should be something, there really should be something of, man, what a horrible thing.

I can't believe that would happen. I think that's a normal thing. And of course, we can't believe in a sinful world that would happen, it will always happen, but it is a tragic thing. So there's someone who's dead.

And so we're gonna talk about this. I'm gonna give you the facts that we know of the situation that I think are relevant. And then we're gonna talk about the reaction, the woke evangelical reaction. And last but not least, we're gonna talk about biblical justice.

Critical Race Theory as an Analytical Tool in the Arbery Case

I wanna give you kind of a guide for dealing with situations like this as much as possible. And I'll start it off this way, guys. Resolution 9, we talk about it quite a bit, but it got a lot of press because it was the first time the Southern Baptist had endorsed critical race theory and intersectionality as analytical tools.

And I think a lot of people still think that this was some kind of future direction that the woke guys wanted to take the SBC. It was not. And I know that 100%. I graduated from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

This was justification for what was already taking place. At least two of the guys on that committee, Whitfield and Strickland were professors at Southeastern. The chairman was Curtis Woods. I was using critical race theory in his dissertation.

They were already using critical race theory. That's the point, or worked for institutions that did. And this was a way of justifying what was already taking place. And guys, this situation with Ahmaud Arbery and the way that this is being handled and interpreted by evangelicals who are woke is using critical race theory as an analytical tool.

This is a good exhibit A. If you really wanna know what that looks like. And it's the subversion of justice. It is antithetical to biblical justice. And the guys who are taking this side and not recanting or repenting of it, not realizing.

I understand sometimes you get taken in, you hear wrong facts. But if you are confronted with the facts, and I mean, to be honest with you, I almost don't wanna say that because it's so cut and dry. You shouldn't attribute false motives.

But for those who are attributing these false motives, and maybe you heard it from somewhere else, and now you're confronted with the facts and you don't change. I don't know why anyone should ever listen to you again.

It's the height of dishonesty. It's the subversion of justice. It is antithetical to scripture. And we're gonna look at all of that. So let's start with the situation here. February 23rd in the afternoon, it's around two o 'clock.

Ahmaud Arbery is killed during an altercation with Travis McMichael. And if you're watching, I have some maps here. I wanna show you, because I think this actually is important. I haven't seen anyone else looking at it from this bird's eye view, but there's a 911 call before this whole incident takes place.

Out here, there is a guy in a house right now, is what someone unidentified, but someone who calls 911. He says, it's a house under construction, 219 or 220 Satilla Drive in Brunswick, Georgia. So this is, it's one of these houses here.

If you're watching, and I'm just gonna describe things to you if you're listening, but you can see that in the one that's zoomed out here, it's kind of like a little peninsula here. It's just a residential area with a peninsula.

Like it's kind of off the beaten path. We'll put it that way. And I know it's over two miles from some reports I was reading from this individual's home, which is, I mean, if you're jogging, you know, you jog two miles or more, but that's where it is, but it's completely residential.

You think, you know, a place where everyone would probably know each other, and it's bordering this kind of inlet from the ocean. And the house that Ahmaud Arbery had broken into was bordering the water here.

And so if he went in there, first of all, you're gonna see this in a minute. If he was going to the bathroom or something, there's actually a port-a-potty right outside the house. So he's not going in there looking for, I need to go to the bathroom, which would be wrong anyway, but in case someone wants to float that theory.

But he's not taking a shortcut either. He's not, you know, I'm gonna cut through this person's yard because there's no reason to do that. It's bordering the water. He's not trying to go for a swim. Wasn't wearing swimming trunks.

And it doesn't get you to any other road. It's really off the beaten path completely. So this guy who's across the street comes out, a neighbor, says there's a guy in the house right now. It's under construction.

And you're gonna see the picture in a minute. It's not under construction and like half built. It's actually, it looks like someone could be living there, but no one is because it's under construction.

And you know that because there's a port-a-potty outside and there's, you know, on the window, there's a notice that it's under construction. So 30 seconds after this 911 call says, and he's running right now.

It was a sense of urgency. And he says it like three or four times. And there were two 911 calls. And you hear, I think it's in the second one. You hear a guy, another guy who calls in yelling, stop. Hey, stop.

You know, trying to get this, trying to get Ahmaud Arbery to stop while after he starts running. All right, so envision the situation. You're a neighbor, you're looking across the street. You see a guy walk into a house and then he comes out and he notices you, which the video seems to indicate that's probably the case.

He's noticing that, hey, there's someone watching me and he bolts it. I mean, it looks suspicious, right? He's been caught on camera a bunch before at night. Kind of an ongoing thing out here is what the 911 caller says.

And then he says, he's done back run through the neighborhood in our front yard. So he's in this guy's front yard. Now, that's setting up the situation. So this guy's under the impression that, hey, this is a robber.

This is a burglar who's been casing joints and taking things and we've caught him on camera or at least he's been intending to do that. And we've already caught him. And here he is in broad daylight. I caught him finally.

And he's calling 911, which was the right thing to do, right? To call 911. So here is a video of the situation. And I'm gonna just walk through this with you because this video is 2 .08 p .m. in the afternoon.

It starts and this is the one that's not being shown a whole lot, but this is the other video. So you see a man, believed to be Arbery. He's walking down the street. He's not going for a jog. He's just walking.

And he walks right up into the garage, walks into the garage. And then a minute later, he's walking around. He walks around the back. And what's he doing? He's checking the place out. He doesn't have an intended mission going into it.

And so he's in there a few minutes, camera. This is a surveillance camera from a house right across the street. You can see the porta potty right outside. You can see how there's, it looks like a little permit on the door.

And then you see an unidentified figure enters the upper left frame. And here's what's going on. It's unclear what he's doing, but the police report says a neighbor called 911. It's probably the neighbor.

And he walks out to the street right in front of the house and he's watching the house. He's just watching, calling the cops, most likely. And it's hard to tell in the video. And then Arbery walks out of, it looks like the garage, and he runs.

And he sees the guy, presumably, who's calling the police. He just runs. And I mean, you can't tell me that doesn't look suspicious in some way, right? So then you see, this is really hard to tell, but it's sort of the upper left-hand corner of the camera.

Two identified figures appear to move near a parked white truck in the vicinity of Traffic McMichael's address. And the truck then drives down Satilla Drive. And so there's some guys that also saw it or they were called and notified, and they get in their car and they're gonna go after Arbery.

And the guy who made the 911 call just walks back to his house, presumably. And so now it's 2 -17. And I know I've watched the video before. So a police car is about to come barreling down Satilla Drive.

And I'm just gonna let you watch this because I want everyone to see this before. Before you see the other video, you should probably at least see this one if you wanna get a more complete picture. And so nothing's happened yet.

It's been a few minutes now. And then a police cruiser drives by the construction site. It's now 2 -19. And so there's the police cruiser, almost 2 -20, coming by the construction site, going down Satilla Drive, responding.

So it's been a few minutes. This is during the time that Arbery is being confronted and perhaps he's already been, I don't know, he may have been shot at this point. And let's see if I can skip ahead here a little bit.

I know another, there's another vehicle, another cruiser, another police cruiser I know comes barreling down the drive at a really fast speed towards the end of this video a couple minutes later. And there it is.

2 -22, after 2 -22, another police cruiser comes by. And there he is. All right, so that's what we have from this particular video. Now, here's what the police report said the day of. I'm gonna just read this to you.

And guys, this might be boring for some of you, but it's important. If you really wanna weigh in on this, then you need to know what actually happened. Here's what the police said. Upon my arrival, I observed Officer Minshew setting up a perimeter.

I began speaking with Gregory McMichael, who was a witness to the incident. McMichael stated that there had been several break-ins in the neighborhood, and further, the suspect was caught on surveillance video.

And I guess that's a typo, I'm not sure. In his front yard, and saw the suspect from the break-in. So, McMichael is identifying this guy as the suspect in the break-ins. And he says that he's going fast.

He was really running hard, like he had done something wrong is the implication there. Down Satella Drive, toward Burford Drive, McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis, and said, Travis, the guy is running down the streets, let's go.

McMichael stated he went to his bedroom and grabbed his magnum, and Travis grabbed his shotgun, because they didn't know if the male was armed or not. Michael stated, the other night, they saw the same male, and he stuck his hands down his pants, which led them to believe he was a male, the male was armed.

So, look, for all the people that are weighing in on this and saying, well, how in the world did they think it was okay to have a gun while confronting? It doesn't say they pointed the gun at this guy, doesn't say that, just says they had the gun, they had guns with them.

And the reason was because they thought this guy might have a gun. If he's the guy that's robbing houses, and we saw him reach for something the other night, and that's how they identified him, then it stands to reason, well, we better be protected if we're gonna confront this guy, because he may shoot us.

Fair enough? So, whether you agree with it or not, think they should have gone after him or not, it was for protection, as we presume, we need to give benefit of the doubt as much as possible that they brought the gun.

Now, McMichael then states, he and Travis got in the truck, drove down Satilla Drive towards Burford Drive. McMichael stated that when they arrived at the intersection of Satilla and Holmes Drive, they saw the unidentified male running down Burford Drive.

McMichael then stated, had Travis drive down Burford and attempted to cut off the male. The unidentified male turned around and began running back in the direction from which he came, and Roddy attempted to block him, which was unsuccessful.

Michael stated he then jumped into the bed of the truck. He and Travis continued to Holmes in an attempt to intercept him. So, this guy's already evaded them stopping him. They're calling out to him. They're saying, we heard this in the second 911 call, but they're saying, hey, stop, and he doesn't stop, and he tries to evade them.

Well, if you're already suspicious, you think you saw this guy on camera, you think he might have a gun, you saw him go into this house, and now he's trying not to be caught, then you think, well, he probably did something wrong.

McMichael stated, they saw the unidentified male and shouted, stop, stop, we wanna talk to you. Michael stated they pulled up beside the male and shouted stop again, at which time Travis exited the truck with the shotgun.

McMichael stated the unidentified male began to violently attack Travis, and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot, and then a second later, there was a second shot.

McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body. McMichael stated he rolled the man over to see if the male had a weapon. Now, this is consistent with the video. The video shows the same thing.

He's jogging down the street, and by the way, I'm not gonna show that video because I think everyone's seen this video. Next time you watch the video, though, I want you to watch for something. Look at how Ahmad is dressed, especially his shoes.

And look, people can run in boots, but he's running in, he has boots on. These aren't running shoes. And the video, the surveillance video doesn't start off with him. He's not running, he's walking into the house.

He only starts running when he notices that someone's watching him. That's what it appears to look like, okay? And I'm saying appears, but from the evidence we have, that seems to be what's taking place.

So to say this guy's just a jogger. Joggers, they generally, they're not wearing those kinds of boots. They're not just walking and going into people's houses, and they're not trying to evade like that, just by nature of them jogging.

His running had a motivation to it. Now, let's keep going here. Here's, this is from DA report. I'm just gonna read this. Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and Brian William were following in hot pursuit a burglary suspect with solid firsthand probable cause in their neighborhood and asking, telling him to stop.

It appears their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived under Georgia law. This is perfectly legal. Arbery was running along the right side of McMichael truck and then abruptly turns 90 degrees to the left and attacks Travis McMichael, who was standing at the front left corner of the truck.

A brief skirmish ensues in which it appears Arbery strikes McMichael and appears to grab the shotgun and pull it from McMichael. This was the beginning, or almost immediately became a fight over the shotgun.

Arbery initiated the fight. At the point Arbery grabbed the shotgun, under Georgia law, McMichael was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself. There's insufficient probable cause to issue arrest warrants at this time.

And this is George Barnhill, who has over a hundred homicides. I mean, he's been in the force for years and you know, this is his opinion on it. Then this is an important, now this is, he has all the laws are cataloged in this.

This does look to be perfectly legal. And even if you watch the video, it does seem to, it corroborates with this. You have McMichael standing there with a shotgun and they're saying, hey, stop. And then you have this guy, Ahmad, he does make a 90 degree turn.

He's on the other side of the truck. He runs over and he starts hitting him and he grabs the shotgun. And so to say that this guy is just a jogger and unarmed is not true. He was armed, or at least he was trying to become armed.

He had his hands on a shotgun. That doesn't mean, if someone's trying to grab, you have a gun and someone comes and they tried it, they're punching you and trying to grab your gun. Are they unarmed? No, they're not.

Cause they're trying to take your weapon and presumably kill you with it. So let's just dispel these two notions right now, that this guy is a jogger and we know that for a fact and that he was unarmed.

Well, at the beginning he was, but as soon as he grabbed that shotgun and started initiating force, he wasn't unarmed anymore. And I'm sorry if you don't like that, but, you know, and it's a horrible situation, guys.

I have to emphasize, it really is. I'm sure the McMichaels feel bad about it, but there's more to this. I'm gonna keep going here. So Greg McMichael had investigated Arbery before. These two were not strangers.

They knew each other. In his letter of recusal to Georgia attorney, General Chris Carr, Waycross Judicial Circuit Court District Attorney, Roger Barnhill wrote that his son, a prosecutor in the Brunswick DA's office and McMichael, then an investigator in that same office, both helped with the previous prosecution of Ahmaud Arbery.

So Arbery was prosecuted before? McMichael, a former Glynn County cop, told Glynn Police he recognized Arbery, 25, from surveillance video that captured a recent burglary in his mostly white neighborhood.

He said he planned to make a citizen's arrest. So that's, you know, that's another important facet of this. These guys are being called vigilantes. What they did was perfectly within the law. That's not, vigilantes operate outside the boundaries of the law.

These guys were not doing that. And so the crowd that wants to make out, oh, this is just vigilantism, which frankly, it's, you're tarring and feathering these guys. And you don't understand the law. You don't understand what actually was taking place.

Now, was it wise for them to do this? I happen to, I'll just give you my gut opinion, no. I think they should have just called the police and let it alone. But now that you are getting this extra information, you might understand a little more why they went after him.

The reason is, is because McMichael, Greg McMichael, was a retired officer. He was the police, recently. It's probably his, just, that's the way he operates. He's used to that. And he knew this guy. Now, maybe, I don't know whether he recognized him or not, but, you know, I'm sure once Ahmaud Arbery got close enough to see Greg McMichael, he would have recognized, oh no, this is the guy that I sat across a table from and was investigated by.

And what was he investigated for? It says, when he was in high school, Arbery was sentenced to five years probation as a first offender on charges of carrying a weapon on campus and several counts of obstructing a law enforcement officer.

He was convicted of probation violation in 2018 after he was charged with shoplifting, court documents show. McMichael, who retired from the DA's office in April 2019, made no mention of his work on that investigation to police, though it's unknown whether he remembered it at the time.

And this is reported from the Star. This is really crucial information, guys. So that would be another reason they might have taken guns with them. If McMichael had recognized that's the guy that was armed and had broken probation from shoplifting and now he's robbing our neighborhood, of course he thinks that Ahmaud will have a gun.

Of course he's gonna bring something to protect himself. And it would make sense why Ahmaud would have run, because he's noticing that's the cop. He doesn't know he's retired, probably. And so this is information that you're not hearing out there, guys.

And it's important. It's really crucial for this whole entire case. Now, this is another angle, another facet of this. You also, I think, need to understand the Brunswick County Judicial Circuit DA, Jackie Johnson, recused herself right away because of conflict of interest.

Because of, I believe it was a relationship with Greg McMichael or his son. There was some kind of a working relationship that happened. So she recused herself. There's a conflict of interest. I can't take the case.

Well, look at the social media outrage. Burn the witch. Hi, Jackie Johnson. How long have you hated black people and protected killers? You only protect white people. You are not a good person. KKK is hiding behind badges and titles.

You have blood on your hands. So, I mean, the list goes on. These are just a few examples. It's horrendous. I mean, I just want you to see the picture of this person. This is a human being, too, made in God's image.

I know the Russell Moores of the world and the J .D. Greers love to bring up humans made in God's image every time something like this happens. But everyone's made in God's image. And there's more than, this is a bad thing, too, to go after her for this, for not arresting them, essentially, initially, when she didn't have, I mean, it would have been thrown out of court probably if she did, if she had advised that, because they didn't have grounds for it.

You think this investigator, McMichael, he would have known the law, right? And so he, you know, anyway. So here's why the investigation was held up. There's really three reasons. Number one, on April 1st, Georgia District Attorney George Barnhill receives a autopsy report.

So this is a new DA, right? So one DA recused themselves. Here's another DA, Georgia Barnhill. And that's when he receives the autopsy, not until April 1st. You think COVID might've had something to do with this?

Maybe. April 2nd, the DA states they were waiting on this important evidentiary article before finalizing their opinions. Well, that seems wise. Wait until the autopsy report. So this idea that we should have arrested him right away.

Well, they were waiting for more evidence. They didn't have enough evidence. The mother, though, wanted Barnhill off the case, the mother of Arbery. However, since we were initially requested to handle the case, this is what Barnhill says.

The victim's mother has clearly expressed she wants myself and my office off the case since my son works in the Brunswick District Attorney's office where Greg McMichael retired some time ago. So she believes there are kinships between the parties that are not, but has made other unfounded allegations of biases.

So this Barnhill is saying, his mother is saying, wants me off the case. He recuses himself. He also says this, and this is the third reason. Given the governor's current shelter-in-place order and Justice Melton's judicial emergency order, I cannot venture a guess as to when they will move on this request.

And once another is found, another DA, when the District Attorney will have the staff available to review the case file, I hope for all involved, it will move along as quickly as possible. So guys, let's just be real clear here.

This idea that, well, justice hasn't been served. This has taken way too long. There's three reasons that it's been taking long. COVID -19 is one of those reasons. Second reason is you have DAs recusing themselves, two of them.

So they have to keep finding DAs. And so, I guess those would be the two reasons, the two DAs recusing themselves. So there's more to meets the eye here. It's not just the justice system, it's just a failure.

For all of you guys who are saying, well, you just got to social distance and you just got to stay home, but you want swift justice on this, think through that for a minute. Think through that. So this was taken from a February 23rd letter to Captain Jump, I believe is the name, from Barnhill.

Now, let's move on. DA's opinion. I just want to read these for you. There is an immediate pressure on your department as to the issue of arrest. Talking to the police department here in this letter. And he's talking about public pressure.

There's public pressure now. I think public pressure getting involved has changed maybe the way that this is being handled. Even the arrest, that it's possible. Now, I could be wrong on that. I don't really have evidence for that, but he's just acknowledging there's public pressure.

Myself and one of the senior trial attorneys have reviewed the evidence extensively concur in all points. The autopsy supports the initial opinion we gave you on February 24th. We do not see grounds for an arrest of any of these three parties.

Do you want to live in a world where if someone attacks you, and you're not, you have a gun in your hand, right? Which is legal, right? It's legal in Georgia. I mean, it should be. Second Amendment says that's legal anyway.

But it's legal. You have a gun. And someone attacks you and starts punching you and trying to grab your gun to kill you that you can't fight back. It's a little unclear. I mean, the initial police report said, the shots were fired by McMichael, but that's even unclear in what the DA said.

He said, you can't tell from the camera. It's a struggle over the shotgun and who knows who pulled the trigger. Shots were fired. In that struggle. But do you want to live in that world? Where, I mean, put the shoe on the other foot for a minute.

Change the ethnic makeup. Let's say it's a white supremacist of some kind. Like a real, not, McMichael, there's no evidence he's a white supremacist at all. But let's say a real white supremacist is going after a minority of some kind.

And should that minority then, if they have a weapon, they just can't use it because they should just take the beating? Well, I don't think we want to grow up in a world, we want our kids to grow up in a world like that.

I hope not. That's not true justice at all. I'm gonna show you that in a minute, but that's the conclusion you'd have to draw. All right, so Tom Durden becomes the new DA pro tempore. And he formally appointed, was formally appointed because the other DAs accused themselves.

And he issues a press release. And he informs of his intent to try the case before a grand jury for consideration of criminal charges. So once we get to the point of arrest, it's because a third DA has weighed in and by now public opinion is just screaming.

And that could be part of it. Now, May 5th, the footage was released. So if we're looking at dates here, I believe this letter is also May 5th. So the same day that Tom Durden says, hey, grand jury is the same day that the lawyer for the family, of Arbery's family, releases this footage or makes known that this footage exists.

It had already been released on YouTube, I guess. And, you know, the lawyer just says, this is murder. This is murder pursued by three white men. We're injecting race into this, three white men. Now this is where race starts getting injected, guys.

It's, the lawyer is depending on that. Now here's, here are the photos you see. This is the optics of it. May 7th, Gregory and Travis McMichael are arrested. And here are their mugshots. Here's, I want to show you, this is Ahmaud Arbery.

On the left is the picture that you've seen over and over again. I think that's a prom picture or something. It's formal event and it looks like it's a prom picture. He's smiling and everything. Look on the right.

This is another picture. This is a mugshot picture for when he, I'm assuming this is from 2018 when he violated probation and shoplifted. Have you, have any of you seen that picture? And I want to ask you a question, why?

Why is the one on the left the only one used? And how come, let me see if I can find it here. I can't find it. How come the picture of Travis and Gregory McMichael are, this is the picture you're seeing.

They're not going to their Facebook to find the best pictures of them. They're showing these pictures. And before these were available, they were showing a picture of them hunting, trying to make them look like a bunch of rednecks.

I'm telling you, there's more going on here. So what are some of the reactions? Here's just a few. And this is what you'd expect. Action alert, end all of the ACP. Ahmaud Arbery was running in his neighborhood and was chased and murdered by two white supremacists.

That is an outright, I mean, it's a lie. It's a lie at this point. You have no, look, if it comes out that they're white supremacists and that's why they did it and you know something we don't know, you better release it.

Otherwise, you're just accusing someone without actual evidence. Joe Biden, the video is clear. Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family. How do you know he was killed in cold blood?

How do you know that? It's time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder. I love swift justice, but the Democrats seem to never want it when it comes to their side. They never called for swift justice with Hillary Clinton.

They tried to put every roadblock in the way of that. Time Magazine, Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a lynching and blames White House rhetoric for emboldening racists. So now it's Trump's fault and it's a lynching.

Here's a tweet I put out there. I'm gonna talk about this. I said, the entire country is losing jobs and civil liberties, but woke evangelicals like Costi Hinn, J .D. Greer, and Russell Moore are virtue signaling about a shooting in Georgia before due process without complete evidence and with an unnecessary assumption of racism.

This isn't justice. And I stand by this tweet, guys. I've had some people upset at me for this, which is why I wanna kind of address it. Let's start with J .D. Greer's response here. J .D. Greer, this is just the tip of the iceberg.