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The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery: A timeline of a case that has gripped the nation

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden called for an investigation into the <keyword id="6379811" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="killing">killing</keyword> of <keyword id="9174117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ahmaud-arbery">Ahmaud Arbery</keyword>. </li><li>Arbery, a black man, was shot and killed in a wealthy coastal <keyword id="6385073" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia">Georgia</keyword> town in February by two white neighbors. </li><li>Relatives and friends have said the incident was racially motivated and are concerned with their inability to protest and organize due to the coronavirus pandemic. </li><li>A video of the alleged incident has gone viral on Twitter. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden called for an investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after a video of the incident emerged.Abery, a 25-year-old from Brunswick, Georgia, was <a href="https://www.insider.com/online-protests-erupted-after-georgia-black-jogger-was-shot-dead-2020-4">killed in February</a> while jogging in a coastal town. He ran past Gregory McMichael who called to his son Travis McMichael before grabbing their guns and following Arbery in a truck. The elder McMichael is a former police officer and told police, he said the duo was acting in self-defense and believed Arbery was tied to several break-ins in the area. Video of the alleged incident shows a truck driving behind Arbery jogging, before stopping. One man gets out to confront Arbery, there's an altercation, and two shots ring out.In a tweet on Tuesday night, Biden wrote: "The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder."According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/us/ahmaud-arbery-jogging-georgia-shooting/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2020-05-06T00%3A57%3A26&amp;utm_source=twCNNsource=twCNN">CNN</a>, A Georgia district attorney is recommending that the case goes to a grand jury. The coronavirus pandemic has prevented courts from using a grand jury but Tom Durden, the district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit said: "he expects to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County to consider whether charges are merited for those involved in Arbery's death."The family of Arbery says he was unarmed and most likely jogging for exercise. The police report also did not indicate whether Arbery was armed or not. No charges have been brought against either of the McMichaels. McMichael said Arbery was in the property of a house that was partially opened but under construction. Georgia's state's citizen's arrest law could justify the duo chasing Arbery because they suspected he was a criminal, George E. Barnhill, a prosecutor who previously worked the case before recusing himself over conflict of interest, said according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/ahmed-arbery-shooting-georgia.html">The New York Times. </a>Barnhill said: "that he did not believe there was evidence of a crime, noting that Gregory McMichael and his son had been legally carrying their weapons under Georgia law."Additionally, he wrote that the McMichaels had "solid firsthand probable cause," and were justified in chasing him because they thought he was a burglary suspect, under the state's citizen's arrest law, according to The Times.S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Arbery family said: "at best" the men "had the authority to follow Arbery and send law enforcement to that location," according to CNN. He added that the McMichaels were unable to answer the 911 dispatcher's questions on what criminal activity Arbery was doing. Family and friends previously said they were concerned that social distancing, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, was limiting their ability to protest and gather attention to the case. Their concerns is that the killing was racially motivated. "We can't do anything because of this corona stuff," Wanda Cooper, Arbery's mother told The Times. "We thought about walking out where the shooting occurred, just doing a little march, but we can't be out right now."Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Joe Biden calls for a 'swift, full, and transparent investigation' of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after footage of the incident emerges

<div type="image" title="Ahmaud Arbery memorial" height="3004" width="6008" msid="75614299" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9174117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ahmaud-arbery">Ahmaud Arbery</keyword>, an unarmed black man whose family says he was just out for a jog, was chased by two white men who suspected him of being a burglar. One of those men them shot Arbery to death.</li><li>Graphic leaked video of the shooting went public this week, causing many on both the left and right to express outrage and disgust. </li><li>The father-son duo that hunted Arbery both had ties to law enforcement. The father himself was an ex-cop who recently retired as an investigator for the District Attorney's office.</li><li>A prosecutor — who eventually recused himself from the case — wrote a letter to the <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> saying he saw no reason to press charges against Arbery's killers, saying they had a right to conduct a citizen's arrest and to shoot in self-defense.</li><li>The unwillingness of <keyword id="6497399" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="prosecutors">prosecutors</keyword> to bring charges against people who run in their law enforcement circles is a problem that is brought to the forefront by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="6356002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="opinion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>The fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Georgia black man, is such an obvious case of vigilante murder that it has united some prominent voices of both the <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1257876833581912065">left</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1258409758916145154">right</a> in universal outrage. Though much of the early outrage has focused on the issues of race, open carry, and citizen's arrest laws — all-important issues in this case — there's another pertinent issue that deserves critical examination: the often too-cozy relationship between prosecutors and police.Prosecutors are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/amber-guyger-trial-what-prosecutors-did/index.html">generally disinclined</a> to <a href="https://reason.com/2016/09/30/why-its-so-hard-to-stop-bad-cops-from-ge/">bring charges</a> against police officers, or even ex-police officers, as in the case of Arbery's killers. Arbery was shot on February 23. But it took a tweet on Tuesday from activist Shaun King sharing a <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1257803830181400583">video of the shooting</a> — roughly two and a half months later — for the prosecutor in charge, Tom Durden of Georgia's Atlantic Judicial Circuit, to say he is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-georgia.html?algo=bandit-story&amp;fellback=false&amp;imp_id=351436721&amp;action=click&amp;module=moreIn&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;region=Footerrticle&amp;region=Footer">recommending the case</a> be brought before a grand jury.Durden is the third prosecutor assigned to the case because the previous two recused themselves for conflicts of interest.Update: Minutes after this column was published, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation <a href="https://twitter.com/GBI_GA/status/1258547834787258368">announced</a>: "Gregory &amp; Travis McMichael have been arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery."<h2>Vigilante murder </h2>Arbery was shot twice by 34-year-old Travis McMichael, who with his 64-year-old father Gregory, chased Arbery in a pickup truck after Gregory saw him running down the street. Arbery's family says he was an avid jogger and out for a run, and in the video he appears to be wearing workout clothes. The elder McMichael thought Arbery looked like a burglary suspect he claimed to have seen in a surveillance video, and he and his son brought a shotgun and a .357 magnum along for the ride. A third man followed in another car, and appears to be the person who shot the video. The 36-second video clip clearly shows the McMichaels' truck parked in the middle of the road, blocking Arbery's running path. Travis stands outside the vehicle holding a shotgun, while Gregory stands in the pickup's bed. Arbery runs around the right-side of the truck and though it is unclear who initiated contact, scuffles with Travis over the shotgun. Within seconds, shots were fired, and Arbery collapsed to the asphalt. He died on the scene.When police arrived, Gregory told them that "there have been several break-ins in the neighborhood," <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6915-arbery-shooting/b52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1">according to the police report</a>. According to <a href="https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/dispatcher-what-was-he-doing-wrong/article_fe51cdd4-3bb6-5815-9dec-ddcdc8f879f8.html">The Brunswick News</a>, just one burglary was reported in the area from January 1 to February 23: a gun stolen from Travis McMichael's unlocked pickup truck on January 1.Gregory also told police that they shouted "stop, we want to talk to you" before pulling alongside Arbery. At this point, he said, "Travis exited the truck with the shotgun" and Arbery "began to violently attack Travis." However, the video clearly shows Travis standing holding the shotgun a full ten seconds before Arbery attempts to run around the parked truck. The police report <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/ahmed-arbery-shooting-georgia.html">doesn't mention</a> that Arbery was unarmed. No arrests were made at the scene. It wouldn't be until May 7 that the McMichaels were arrested.<h2>A prosecutor saw the video and still believed the McMichaels' story</h2>The first prosecutor, Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson, recused herself because the elder McMichael, a former police officer, had been an investigator in the DA's office. The next prosecutor, Waycross judicial circuit District Attorney George Barnhill, also recused himself from the case because his son currently works in Johnson's office.Before his recusal, Barnhill <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6916-george-barnhill-letter-to-glyn/b52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1">sent a letter</a> to Glynn County PD Captain Tom Jump, where he wrote, "I appreciate there is immediate pressure on your department as to the issue of 'Arrest,'" adding that he did "not see grounds for an arrest of any of the three parties."Barnhill in the letter identified William Bryan (called "Roddy" in the police report) as the third man in pursuit of Arbery, and the person who shot the video. The DA wrote that the video "appears" to show Arbery "running along the right side of the McMichael truck then abruptly turns 90 degrees to the left and attacks Travis McMichael."That's an outrageous way to describe what actually happened. In the video, Arbery is seen "running along the right side" of a stopped truck with two men brandishing weapons and waiting for him to approach. Barnhill posited that "Arbery's mental health records &amp; prior convictions help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man."As often happens in the case of police-involved shootings, the victim's past became evidence to support the shooting. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html">The New York Times</a>, Arbery "was convicted of shoplifting and of violating probation in 2018" and that in 2013 "he was indicted on charges that he took a handgun to a high school basketball game."Further, Barnhill wrote, the men were within their rights under Georgia state law to openly carry firearms. They were also in the clear because they were "'in hot pursuit' of a burglary suspect, with solid firsthand probable cause, in their neighborhood, and asking/telling him to stop." That, Barnhill wrote, put them within their rights to conduct a citizen's arrest and detain Arbery until police arrived. Finally, Barnhill said, "Arbery initiated the fight" and grabbed Travis' shotgun. Therefore, "under Georgia Law, McMichael was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself." <h2>It shouldn't have taken the video going public to launch a grand jury</h2>Between 2005 and 2015, 54 police officers were prosecuted for a line of duty shooting, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings/">The Washington Post</a>.There are about 1,000 police-involved shootings in the US every year. It strains credulity that just 54 of the thousands of shootings met the criteria for a prosecutor to recommend charges to a grand jury. Neither of the McMichaels are current police officers, but they have strong ties to law enforcement and the DA's office. It's entirely possible these ties had nothing to do with Barnhill's recommendation that they not be arrested for Arbery's shooting. It's also entirely possible that Barnhill considered all the available facts and merely wanted to make his opinion known to the Glynn County PD, who were under public pressure to make an arrest. But Barnhill recused himself from the case because he had a conflict of interest. His attempt to put his finger on the scales of justice before stepping aside is unethical, to say the least.If he's too compromised to work on this case, he shouldn't be telling the police how to consider the evidence. And he should be made to answer for his misstatements of facts that are clearly contradicted by the video (if the video that went public is the same he saw, which seems likely).The unwillingness of prosecutors to bring charges against people who run in their law enforcement circles is a problem that is brought to the forefront by the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2019 <a href="http://www.ujamaaplace.org/uploads/5/9/7/2/59728039/oif_toolkit_february_2019__2_.pdf">issued a study</a> titled: "The Prosecutor's Role in Addressing Officer-Involved Fatalities and Critical Incidents."Among its recommendations are the creation of "independent investigative bureaus" of prosecutors that work exclusively on officer-involved shootings, and don't "work with local law enforcement on any cases." It would essentially nip the conflict of interest issue in the bud. Some prosecutors would work with the cops, some would watch the cops. Ahmaud Arbery did not die at the hands of police, but he did tie at the hands of an ex-cop and his son, who works with a prosecutor. There's no shortage of available outrage to go around regarding this senseless death. Hopefully, some of that furor will go toward addressing an issue that's hiding in plain sight: prosecutors shouldn't be in charge of investigating their buddies. Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ahmaud-arbery-murder-shows-how-hard-prosecute-cops-police-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Ahmaud Arbery's murder shows how hard it is to prosecute cops, or even ex-cops

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9184798" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gregory-mcmichael">Gregory McMichael</keyword>, 64, and his son, <keyword id="9184800" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="travis-mcmichael">Travis McMichael</keyword>, 34, were arrested Thursday in connection with the shooting of death of <keyword id="9174117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ahmaud-arbery">Ahmaud Arbery</keyword>.</li><li>The 25-year-old black man was out running in Brunswick, Georgia, when the pair of white men allegedly mistook him for a suspect in a series of break-ins, a police report says. </li><li>They grabbed two firearms and chased him. Arbery died of his gunshot wounds at the end of the altercation, police said.</li><li>"The probable cause was clear to our agents pretty quickly," Vic Reynolds, director of the <keyword id="6224030" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia-bureau-of-investigation">Georgia Bureau of Investigation</keyword>, said at a <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> conference on Friday.</li><li>The pair faces charges of felony murder and <keyword id="9189571" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="aggravated-assault">aggravated assault</keyword>, Reynolds said.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found enough probable cause to arrest two white men in the <keyword id="3132479" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="shooting-death">shooting death</keyword> of <a href="https://www.insider.com/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-killed-jogging-travis-gregory-mcmichael-georgia-justice-2020-5">Ahmaud Arbery</a>, a 25-year-old black man, within 36 hours of being handed the case."The probable cause was clear to our agents pretty quickly," the agency's director Vic Reynolds said at a news conference on Friday.Arbery was out jogging in the neighborhood around 1 p.m. on February 23 in the Satilla Shores neighborhood of Brunswick, Georgia, when he was pursued by Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34. They were armed and Arbery was killed by the younger McMichael, according to investigators.The agency <a href="https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2020-05-06/ahmaud-arbery-death-investigation">announced</a> that the pair face charges of <a href="https://www.insider.com/gregory-mcmichael-travis-mcmichael-arrested-for-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">felony murder and aggravated assault</a>. They were taken into custody on Thursday evening and booked into the Glynn County Jail."There's sufficient probable cause to charge the McMichaels with felony murder and aggravated assault," Reynolds said. "I can tell you that if we didn't believe it, we wouldn't have arrested them. If we believe it, then we're going to put the bracelets on them and that's exactly what we did yesterday evening."The case is being investigated by District Attorney Tom Durden, a prosecutor in a neighboring county. In the two months since Arbery died, two district attorneys have recused themselves over potential conflicts of interest, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shooting-georgia/georgia-grand-jury-to-consider-charges-in-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-idUSKBN22I02R">Reuters reported</a>.Arbery was <a href="https://www.insider.com/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-killed-jogging-travis-gregory-mcmichael-georgia-justice-2020-5">unarmed during the incident</a>, which was captured on video by a witness in a nearby car and was shared on social media. The footage has prompted uproar across the country, with politicians, athletes, and celebrities, decrying Arbery's death and seeking justice. The Bureau of Investigation is also looking into the video being leaked and the person who filmed the footage.A <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6915-arbery-shooting/b52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf">Glynn County police report</a> said that the McMichaels decided to grab a shotgun and a .357 Magnum and follow Arbery because he looked like a suspect in a series of break-ins in the area.However, the <a href="https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/dispatcher-what-was-he-doing-wrong/article_fe51cdd4-3bb6-5815-9dec-ddcdc8f879f8.html">Brunswick News</a> reported that only one burglary was reported in the area between January 1, 2020, and the day Arbery died. The item stolen was a gun from Travis McMichael's unlocked pickup truck."You look on that video, and it's like it was a hunting party," Ben Crump, one of the attorneys representing Ahmaud's father, Marcus Arbery, Sr., <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/lawyer-ahmaud-arbery-father-arrest-shooters-2020-5">told Insider</a>.Gregory McMichael worked as an investigator for the Glynn County District Attorney's office until May 2019, when he retired. Before that, he also worked as a police officer. These ties to local law enforcement and the absence of an arrest since February hint at "impropriety," Crump said."When we believe if this was any other citizen, especially a citizen of color, they would have been arrested because you have an unarmed man in a jogging attack," Crump said. "He doesn't have any burglary outfit or burglary tools or anything like that. I mean, he's jogging and this guy kills them, and they just take his word for it."For his part, Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, Sr., has characterized the shooting as a "hate <keyword id="39494" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Crime">crime</keyword>.""My young son wasn't doing nothing — minding his own business, running and working out. And that's a crime?" he asked <a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/parents-of-ahmaud-arbery-jogger-killed-in-brunswick-to-release-statement/77-20ae65e3-a2cb-45f7-9aa1-354fd8b065bf">First Coast News</a>. Reynolds pointed out that Georgia doesn't have a hate crime statute.But, he said, "Every stone will be turned over, I promise you."This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/ahmaud-arbery-travis-gregory-mcmichaels-arrest-probable-cause-investigators-2020-5">Insider</a>

Investigators who arrested a father and son in connection with the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery say 'probable cause was clear to our agents pretty quickly'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>American swimmer <keyword id="294834" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ryan-Murphy">Ryan Murphy</keyword> spoke about his experience learning that the 2020 <keyword id="395647" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-Olympics">Tokyo Olympics</keyword> were being postponed.</li><li>The three-time Olympic gold medalist was at the U.S. Olympic &amp; Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado when the country began to shut down due to the spread of COVID-19.</li><li>Murphy headed back to California without many of the resources he relies on to train, but assuming the games were on as scheduled.</li><li>He didn't learn that the <keyword id="6360967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="olympics">Olympics</keyword> were being postponed until nearly a week later when Team USA head coach Dave Durden called him to relay the message.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>One week, Ryan Murphy was in the final stretch of training for the second Olympics of his illustrious <keyword id="13988" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Swimming">swimming</keyword> career.The next, the 24-year-old's plans — and the entire world — got flipped upside down.<div type="image" title="ryan murphy" height="2500" width="2500" msid="75743045" hostid="261"></div>A three-time Olympic gold medalist and the current <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-swim-long-course-100-metres-backstroke-(male)/">world record holder in the long course 100-meter backstroke</a>, Murphy told Insider that the week preceding the International Olympic Committee's official decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo games "was tough" because "the situation seemed to progress so much" and there was so much uncertainty about the future."If I said something to one of my friends, it felt like two hours later that information was now out of date," he said. "That was a crazy situation to be apart of."<h2>Murphy was at the U.S. Olympic &amp; Paralympic Training Center early in March</h2>The facility, which is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, had all of the resources he needed to train for the upcoming Olympics. Murphy was focused on getting his reps in and ramping up his efforts.But with just four months remaining until <keyword id="1581035" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-2020">Tokyo 2020</keyword>'s kickoff, the status of the games — and the state of the entire world — became much murkier.<div type="image" title="ryan murphy.JPG" height="1222" width="1629" msid="75743049" hostid="261"></div>"We got a call on a Tuesday night saying, 'Hey, the Colorado governor is shutting down the training center, so you guys have to get out of there,'" Murphy said. "So we left on a Wednesday morning. The Olympic decision came down the following Tuesday, so there was a six-day period between us leaving Colorado and the Olympic decision."Those six days were riddled with uncertainty for Murphy, his fellow national teamers, and all of the Olympic hopefuls around the world."We were obviously keeping up with the news and seeing how this situation was evolving," he said. "That was tough."<h2>Murphy returned to his home in Berkeley, California, and picked up with his training using the facilities at his alma mater</h2>But like many other athletes, he began to see their training arrangements compromised by the rapid shutdown of the country.<div type="image" title="Photo 6_Cred_Jack Spitser_@Jackspitser" height="827" width="1103" msid="75743052" hostid="261"></div>"Every day, it felt like we were losing another resource," Murphy said. "So one day it was like 'okay, you can't go in the weight room at Cal anymore,' and the next day it was like 'okay, you can't use the pool at Cal anymore.'"As these new, local developments rolled in "even by the hour," Murphy and his teammates — like the rest of the world — were left in the dark about the status of the 2020 Olympics. They had little choice but to assume the games would go on as planned."In my mind, I knew these resources were going away, but the Olympics hadn't been postponed at this point," Murphy said. "So my mentality was like, 'I'm in a really good spot athletically right now, and I'm in a good spot mentally, so I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to find a way to be ready in the midst of all this craziness.'"<div type="image" title="ryan murphy.JPG" height="832" width="1110" msid="75743055" hostid="261"></div>So he did. The backstroke specialist made do with what he had at home for conditioning purposes and tried to keep perspective so as not to get overwhelmed mentally or emotionally."I was really locked in," Murphy said. "I was doing pull-ups on my tree and doing really hard workouts in my house just to make sure I was staying in really good shape.""And then the situation continued to evolve," Murphy said.<h2>By the following Monday — March 23 — the global outlook for the coronavirus pandemic was looking considerably bleaker</h2>The whispers that the Tokyo Olympics would not happen on time were getting louder by the minute. Then, that night, Murphy "got a bit of a heads up" that the games wouldn't go on as planned.<div type="image" title="ryan murphy" height="827" width="1103" msid="75743058" hostid="261"></div>"I got a call from my coach, Dave Durden, who is the head Olympic coach for the now-2021 Olympics," he said. "He called me on Monday night and was like 'Hey Ryan, we've done a really good job over these past couple of days. I'm really proud of how you guys approached it ... but we're going to take a step back and take a week off because the Olympics are going to be postponed sometime soon.'"Murphy headed off to bed without setting the alarm — "Well, I'm sleeping in now," he recalls thinking — and woke up to the news that the IOC was officially pushing the games back. His phone started ringing at 6 a.m. with "a lot of people that wanted to talk," including many of Murphy's national team teammates who were navigating similar reactions to his own."That whole Tuesday was essentially spent talking on the phone with a lot of my buddies on the national team," Murphy said. "We were talking through our emotions, and it was a total mix. We were all supporting each other because we knew everyone was in a good spot."<div type="image" title="ryan murphy.JPG" height="1628" width="2500" msid="75743061" hostid="261"></div>"We were like 'even though we don't know when [the Olympics are] postponed to yet, we're going to be ready no matter what,'" he added. "'Whenever the Olympics are, we're going to be ready for it, and we're going to be really good.'"Murphy said those conversations brought him "closure on my competitive mindset" and allowed him to begin focusing on how he would spend his time in quarantine.<h2>Now, Murphy is shifting his focus in light of the postponement and social isolation protocols</h2>In addition to taking <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-olympic-swimmer-ryan-murphy-pushes-car-up-hill-workout-2020-5">quite an unorthodox approach to staying in shape</a>, the many-time NCAA champion has picked up his nonfiction reading, followed his investments more closely, watched the NFL Draft, "The Last Dance," and "Tiger King," and launched <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/d41d8cd9/recess-with-ryan/2714253992194092/">Recess with Ryan</a> — a home workout stream for families.Working through <a href="https://tcjayfund.org/">The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund</a>, Murphy found time to video chat with children who are battling cancer amid the coronavirus crisis. He encouraged "people who are in a position to give 30 minutes of their time" to do so because "kids with cancer is an underserved community in this time."<div type="image" title="ryan murphy" height="686" width="379" msid="75743064" hostid="261"></div>"[The organization] approached me and said this is a really tough time for kids with cancer because hospitals are really restricting the visiting hours," Murphy said. "These kids are legitimately in the fight for their life and in a really, really hard situation and they can't really have visitors.""I love getting to talk to those kids," he added. "Their stories are so inspiring."But with everything on his plate and the now-2021 Olympics on the horizon, Murphy stressed the importance of adhering to social distancing protocols. Even though he's itching to get back in the pool on a more consistent basis, Murphy said it's crucial that we all "do our part to protect the medical community and flatten the curve.""The more we can do to protect our community and support the medical community, the sooner we're going to be out of this," he said. "That's our biggest focus right now — just making sure everything we do is following the guidelines of the health professionals in our country."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-olympic-swimmer-ryan-murphy-pushes-car-up-hill-workout-2020-5">3-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy pushed his car up a hill as a creative workout alternative during quarantine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-kraft-patriots-super-bowl-ring-auction-for-coronavirus-workers-2020-5">New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is donating his fifth Super Bowl ring to help support frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus crisis — and anybody can bid on it</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/shaq-michael-jordan-nba-goat-would-average-45-points-today-2020-5">Shaq says Michael Jordan is 'the best player ever' and that he'd easily average 45 points in today's NBA</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/when-sports-return-from-coronavirus-hiatus-nba-mlb-nhl-2020-3">Many of the top sports leagues and events are starting to pencil in dates for their return — Here is what we know so far</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/olympian-timeline-2020-olympics-postponement-2020-5">Insider</a>

A 3-time gold medalist's hopes of competing in another Olympics this summer came to an agonizing halt over the course of a whirlwind week

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9174117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ahmaud-arbery">Ahmaud Arbery</keyword> was fatally shot while on a jog outside Brunswick, <keyword id="6385073" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia">Georgia</keyword>, on February 23. </li><li>Friday would have been his 26th birthday, and friends, family members, and supporters are running 2.23 miles to honor Arbery and the day that he died. </li><li>Arbery was shot by a former police officer and his adult son, identified as Gregory McMichael and Travis Michael, respectively. </li><li>The McMichaels told police they believed Arbery might have been a suspect in a recent string of robberies, according to a Glynn County Police report. </li><li>No charges have been brought against the McMichaels, but the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the <keyword id="150" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Shooting">shooting</keyword>.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Friends and family of Ahmaud Arbery are running 2.23 miles on Friday to honor the avid runner, <a href="https://www.insider.com/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-killed-jogging-travis-gregory-mcmichael-georgia-justice-2020-5">who was shot dead while on a jog in Georgia in February</a>.Arbery would have turned 26 on May 8. But on February 23 he was gunned down just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, by a former police officer and his adult son, identified as Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, respectively. They believed Arbery looked like a suspect in a recent string of robberies, according to a Glynn County Police report <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/us/ahmaud-arbery-run-support-demonstration/index.html">seen by CNN</a>.Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, has not watched the video, but <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ahmaud-arbery-georgia-jogger-family-demands-arrests-shooting/">she told CBS News</a> that her son was "just out for his daily jog" when he was killed.<a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/brunswick-man-shot-and-killed-while-jogging-no-arrests-made/77-8acf18bb-8e7a-46c4-bb53-f75a752d8f7c">She told First Coast News</a>, a local broadcast outlet, that her son played football at Brunswick High School, and graduated in 2012. He then attended South Georgia Technical College and was working to be an electrician.Cooper-Jones described Arbery as well-mannered, kind, and humble in an <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-unarmed-black-man-killed-georgia-speaks-ahmaud/story?id=70552216">interview with "Good Morning America</a>.""Ahmaud didn't deserve to go the way that he went," she said.<h2>Arbery 'had pride in everything he did'</h2>Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, said that his son was an aspiring boxer. He liked to stay fit and was known for his daily jogs."He took his body very seriously, always ran and had pride in everything he did," <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/cellphone-video-shows-georgia-jogger-allegedly-ambushed-gunmen/story?id=70509641">Marcus Arbery told ABC News</a>. "It cuts me deeply how his life was taken. I would have preferred them to come and take my life instead."Jason Vaughn, Arbery's high school football coach, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/us/ahmaud-arbery-run-support-demonstration/index.html">told CNN</a> that he saw a 2.23-mile run as a way to honor Arbery.Vaughn organized the run virtually — telling supporters to run wherever they are, in part because the novel coronavirus pandemic is keeping people apart, but also because running is what Arbery loved to do. "With COVID-19, of course, we can't have a demonstration where we all come together," Vaughn told CNN, adding that the last time he saw Arbery was on a run. "Any runner can identify with Maud, a guy who may have had a bad day, but he can go out there and hit the pavement and go jog."<a href="https://www.facebook.com/irunwithmaud/">A Facebook page called "I run with Maud"</a> was also created in recent weeks, and supporters are sharing <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> stories about the incident as well as photos of Arbery.<h2>Georgia's NAACP called Arbery's <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death">death</keyword> a 'modern-day lynching'</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">Video of the attack emerged on Tuesday</a>, posted on Twitter by the activist Shaun King. In <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1257737290786443266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257737290786443266&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fjoe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-520-5">the clip</a>, Arbery can be seen jogging in broad daylight. As he approaches a parked, white pick up truck, two men get out of the vehicle. The video then shows the runner and another man grappling over what appears to be a shotgun, as gunshots ring out. The runner punches the man before a third shot is fired, and the runner falls.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting, and a grand jury will decide if charged should be brought against the McMichaels.James Woodall, president of the Georgia NAACP, called Arbery's death a "modern-day lynching.""While we acknowledge District Attorney Tom Durden's intentions to convene a grand jury to bring charges against the men who gunned down Ahmaud Arbery, we recognize that we have a long way to go until we reach justice," <a href="https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-issues-statement-murder-ahmaud-arbery/?fbclid=IwAR3EJGQ4NIq89uRTZShHRs61-W9i5YEHd1_ndUk4y6UVANmSheOyxoD26cQ">Woodall said in a statement</a>.<h2>Celebrities and civil rights groups have voiced support for Arbery</h2>As the video spread across the internet, celebrities voiced support for Arbery and his family.<a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1258156220969398272">NBA star LeBron James said on Twitter</a>: "We're literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! I'm sorry Ahmaud (Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the..... heavens above to your family!!"Sen. Kamala Harris <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1258140915497140224">said the video "sickens me to my core."</a>"Exercising while Black shouldn't be a death sentence," <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1257799989067161603">she said</a>.Along with the NAACP, civil rights groups, including the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, have expressed concern over the handling of Arbery's death and the lack of charges brought against the McMichaels."We call on the officials in Brunswick to enforce the rule of law so that it can be safe for citizens to walk the streets," Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, said in a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/07/ahmaud-arbery-video-shooting-arrests-justice-mcmichael/3086891001/">statement to USA Today</a>. "Ahmaud was killed three days before the anniversary of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. Both incidents are a reminder that white supremacy has been a foundation for our country and leads repeatedly to the targeting and harming people of color, particularly African Americans."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/lebron-james-enraged-by-ahmaud-arbery-shooting-were-hunted-everyday-2020-5">LeBron James enraged by the shooting death of an unarmed 25-year-old black man in southern Georgia, says: 'We're literally hunted everyday'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">Joe Biden calls for a 'swift, full, and transparent investigation' of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after footage of the incident emerges</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sean-reed-facebook-live-shot-by-indianapolis-police-2020-5">Indianapolis police fatally shot a black man after a high-speed chase. Just after the shooting someone can be heard mocking the man in Facebook Live footage.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/maryland-charged-with-murder-of-handcuffed-william-green-2020-1">A Maryland police department charged one of its officers with murder after he allegedly shot a handcuffed man 7 times</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-ahmaud-arbery-gunned-down-in-georgia-2020-5">Insider</a>

Family and friends of shooting victim Ahmaud Arbery are honoring his life with a 2.23-mile run as supporters call for an investigation into his death

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9174117" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ahmaud-arbery">Ahmaud Arbery</keyword> was fatally shot while on a jog outside Brunswick, <keyword id="6385073" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia">Georgia</keyword>, on February 23. </li><li>Friday would have been his 26th birthday, and friends, family members, and supporters are running 2.23 miles to honor Arbery and the day that he died. </li><li>Arbery was shot by a former police officer and his adult son, identified as Gregory McMichael and Travis Michael, respectively. </li><li>The McMichaels told police they believed Arbery might have been a suspect in a recent string of robberies, according to a Glynn County Police report. </li><li>No charges have been brought against the McMichaels, but the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the <keyword id="150" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Shooting">shooting</keyword>.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Friends and family of Ahmaud Arbery are running 2.23 miles on Friday to honor the avid runner, <a href="https://www.insider.com/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-killed-jogging-travis-gregory-mcmichael-georgia-justice-2020-5">who was shot dead while on a jog in Georgia in February</a>.Arbery would have turned 26 on May 8. But on February 23 he was gunned down just outside of Brunswick, Georgia, by a former police officer and his adult son, identified as Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, respectively. They believed Arbery looked like a suspect in a recent string of robberies, according to a Glynn County Police report <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/us/ahmaud-arbery-run-support-demonstration/index.html">seen by CNN</a>.Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, has not watched the video, but <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ahmaud-arbery-georgia-jogger-family-demands-arrests-shooting/">she told CBS News</a> that her son was "just out for his daily jog" when he was killed.<a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/brunswick-man-shot-and-killed-while-jogging-no-arrests-made/77-8acf18bb-8e7a-46c4-bb53-f75a752d8f7c">She told First Coast News</a>, a local broadcast outlet, that her son played football at Brunswick High School, and graduated in 2012. He then attended South Georgia Technical College and was working to be an electrician.Cooper-Jones described Arbery as well-mannered, kind, and humble in an <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-unarmed-black-man-killed-georgia-speaks-ahmaud/story?id=70552216">interview with "Good Morning America</a>.""Ahmaud didn't deserve to go the way that he went," she said.<h2>Arbery 'had pride in everything he did'</h2>Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, said that his son was an aspiring boxer. He liked to stay fit and was known for his daily jogs."He took his body very seriously, always ran and had pride in everything he did," <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/cellphone-video-shows-georgia-jogger-allegedly-ambushed-gunmen/story?id=70509641">Marcus Arbery told ABC News</a>. "It cuts me deeply how his life was taken. I would have preferred them to come and take my life instead."Jason Vaughn, Arbery's high school football coach, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/us/ahmaud-arbery-run-support-demonstration/index.html">told CNN</a> that he saw a 2.23-mile run as a way to honor Arbery.Vaughn organized the run virtually — telling supporters to run wherever they are, in part because the novel coronavirus pandemic is keeping people apart, but also because running is what Arbery loved to do. "With COVID-19, of course, we can't have a demonstration where we all come together," Vaughn told CNN, adding that the last time he saw Arbery was on a run. "Any runner can identify with Maud, a guy who may have had a bad day, but he can go out there and hit the pavement and go jog."<a href="https://www.facebook.com/irunwithmaud/">A Facebook page called "I run with Maud"</a> was also created in recent weeks, and supporters are sharing <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> stories about the incident as well as photos of Arbery.<h2>Georgia's NAACP called Arbery's <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death">death</keyword> a 'modern-day lynching'</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">Video of the attack emerged on Tuesday</a>, posted on Twitter by the activist Shaun King. In <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1257737290786443266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257737290786443266&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fjoe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-520-5">the clip</a>, Arbery can be seen jogging in broad daylight. As he approaches a parked, white pick up truck, two men get out of the vehicle. The video then shows the runner and another man grappling over what appears to be a shotgun, as gunshots ring out. The runner punches the man before a third shot is fired, and the runner falls.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting, and a grand jury will decide if charged should be brought against the McMichaels.James Woodall, president of the Georgia NAACP, called Arbery's death a "modern-day lynching.""While we acknowledge District Attorney Tom Durden's intentions to convene a grand jury to bring charges against the men who gunned down Ahmaud Arbery, we recognize that we have a long way to go until we reach justice," <a href="https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-issues-statement-murder-ahmaud-arbery/?fbclid=IwAR3EJGQ4NIq89uRTZShHRs61-W9i5YEHd1_ndUk4y6UVANmSheOyxoD26cQ">Woodall said in a statement</a>.<h2>Celebrities and civil rights groups have voiced support for Arbery</h2>As the video spread across the internet, celebrities voiced support for Arbery and his family.<a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1258156220969398272">NBA star LeBron James said on Twitter</a>: "We're literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! I'm sorry Ahmaud (Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the..... heavens above to your family!!"Sen. Kamala Harris <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1258140915497140224">said the video "sickens me to my core."</a>"Exercising while Black shouldn't be a death sentence," <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1257799989067161603">she said</a>.Along with the NAACP, civil rights groups, including the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, have expressed concern over the handling of Arbery's death and the lack of charges brought against the McMichaels."We call on the officials in Brunswick to enforce the rule of law so that it can be safe for citizens to walk the streets," Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, said in a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/07/ahmaud-arbery-video-shooting-arrests-justice-mcmichael/3086891001/">statement to USA Today</a>. "Ahmaud was killed three days before the anniversary of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. Both incidents are a reminder that white supremacy has been a foundation for our country and leads repeatedly to the targeting and harming people of color, particularly African Americans."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/lebron-james-enraged-by-ahmaud-arbery-shooting-were-hunted-everyday-2020-5">LeBron James enraged by the shooting death of an unarmed 25-year-old black man in southern Georgia, says: 'We're literally hunted everyday'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-calls-for-investigation-of-ahmaud-arbery-killing-2020-5">Joe Biden calls for a 'swift, full, and transparent investigation' of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after footage of the incident emerges</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sean-reed-facebook-live-shot-by-indianapolis-police-2020-5">Indianapolis police fatally shot a black man after a high-speed chase. Just after the shooting someone can be heard mocking the man in Facebook Live footage.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/maryland-charged-with-murder-of-handcuffed-william-green-2020-1">A Maryland police department charged one of its officers with murder after he allegedly shot a handcuffed man 7 times</a></li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-ahmad-arbery-gunned-down-in-georgia-2020-5">Insider</a>

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