I think it's safe to say that a majority of Americans are not into the vigilante justice that happened here. You have a few that are attempting to justify the killing, but MOST people are pretty sympathetic towards Arbery. Even if he was committing a crime, these guys were overzealous in their pursuit, and Georgia should look to rewrite these laws.

That said, why can't it just be criminal? Why the rush towards racism? Blacks are not being gunned down in the street by whites with any kind of regularity, and continuing to espouse that narrative is not helping anything. This is a nation of 300,000,000 people. You're odds of being shot and killed by a white person as a black man are statistically zero. I can't even find current, reliable data on the issue. Maybe, just maybe, people stand to profit off this controversy, and so they sell it to us, not because it's a real threat, but because it supports their policies or their pocket book. I don't get defending these two guys in the same way I don't get trying to instantly label these guys as racists. Show me proof these guys were racist, and I'll change my mind. Until then, that shouldn't be the lead. It's ENTIRELY speculative.

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