Ahmaud Arbery l 20/20 l PART 5

[Music] three days after the release of that video of travis mcmichael killing ahmad armory hundreds of people gathered peacefully in brunswick to honor ahmad on what would have been his 26th birthday i have a black son too and i'm afraid for him every day to walking out in these streets i attended a lot of rallies in south georgia area every county that we visited moms would come to me and say i lost my child the police killed my child [Music] wanda cooper jones was convinced that somebody else might have been involved in her son's death she had no problem saying well look two arrests are nice but we want to make sure that everyone involved and my son's murder pay for it [Music] almost a week after that video came out a man named william roddy bryan speaks to abc news i've never experienced anything like that before whoever the young man was that i did not know i don't really know what else to say other than it was unsettling ryan's attorney mr golf began to offer up his client as a witness to this terrible incident my client was trying to take a video of what was going on i don't think there was any question that roddy was one of the good guys his lawyer kind of goes on the offensive and says roddy's a victim here in some ways he just shot a video he's just a bystander roddy bryan sees a young man running down the street that he doesn't know okay and he's not running to anything he's running from something okay and then a white pickup truck that he recognizes from the neighborhood comes by and he goes in his house he gets his keys he has his cell phone and he gets in his truck somewhere after he pulls out he starts recording i pray for the family i'm sorry for you lost i'm not proud that i shot the video but maybe it helps in the end he apologized for the pain that wanda was experiencing it was really one of the more mystifying aspects of the case two weeks after brian spoke to abc news he was interviewed by the gbi the georgia bureau of investigation the man who captured that video now arrested william roddy bryan has been arrested by georgia authorities on charges including felony murder we had roddy bryant arrested because we believe that he was just as culpable as the mcmichaels in the murder of a mod aubry now this was during covid so we were able to follow cdc guidelines to impanel a grand jury after which all three of the current defendants were the murder indicted ahmad are barry shocked the conscience of the nation and then george floyd was killed it's really the first global anti-racist movement that we'd ever seen the protests were multi-generational they were multiracial but to do so in the middle of a pandemic millions and millions of mass people all over the planet the back-to-back murders of brianna taylor ahmad arbory george floyd really put on display the extent to which black lives do not have value hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

Channel: ABC News

Views: 385,259

Keywords: 2020, ABC, Ahmaud, Arbery, Bryan, McMichael, News, Roddie, William, death, p_cmsid=2494279, p_vid=news-81413950, trial, verdict

Id: YMM71VlohB8

Length: 4min 20sec (260 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 27 2021