I lived and worked in Kingsland and Woodbine for years. Camden County is next to Glynn County.
That area is full of racists. I seem to find racist places to live but racism is widespread but especially in the south. I am not a city girl. I am a southern woman but the racism is spreading all over but maybe it was all over and now just bolder.
Three white men shooting down a black jogger that is not threatning will cause problems and the trial will have tension , according to CNN and it’s high profile’ similiar to the George Floyd murder.
Today the defense requested mistrial based on the fact that black pastors were influencing the jury.
WHAT? The Defense attorney did this . Fortunately the judge denied this request.
A Georgia judge denied a motion for a mistrial on Friday in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case from a defense lawyer who claimed that Black pastors gathered outside the courthouse unfairly influenced the jury in the trial of three white men.
More than 200 pastors gathered on Thursday outside the Glynn County courthouse in coastal Brunswick, Georgia. Organizers said it was a response to defense attorney Kevin Gough’s previous comments that he “didn’t want any more Black pastors” in the courtroom.
Several nationally known reverends and civil rights leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King III have sat with Arbery’s family in the courtroom at various times.
Now, Glynn County is known for their open racism.
Today, there is just one practicing black lawyer based in Glynn County, according to James Yancey. And it's him. He's been here for three decades.
"I've talked to a few black lawyers who were born and raised here," Yancey said. "But they say, 'Look I'm not coming back down there. Nope.' "
Yancey attributed it in part to the "daily indignities" black people in Glynn, and across the country have to face. But the reputation of the Deep South in particular, he said, keeps some people of color away.
By the way Nahunta is just 39 miles away in the nearby county… They have a history of POC hate.
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:29:49 GMT — A Ku Klux Klan rally is planned for this small southeast Georgia city, and the mayor is urging people to go about their business.
The Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan has a permit for a rally in Nahunta, about 35 miles east of Brunswick in Brantley County, from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
City officials say the Klan group says it will focus its rally on illegal immigration and sex offenders.
The Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Jeff Jones, of Elijay, speaks to a group of about 300 people in Nahunta Saturday.
Between 2010 and 2020 Glynn County has had three police chiefs. Previous reporting by The Current shows a pattern of defects within the department, which has been accused of cover-ups and cronyism, according to emails, official reports and grand jury documents.
Up until 2017, the county police were accredited, which in the state is a voluntary process but one that connotes high standards of professionalism. Matt Doering served as chief for 14 years but left the department in 2017, after he allowed the department’s accreditation to expire and amid the continuing controversy over the police shooting in 2010 of Caroline Small, a white mother with a history of mental illness. The officers involved in the shooting were never prosecuted for Small’s
We really do need to do something legislatively regarding the racism that has been normalized by the far right in this country. Ignorance is overtaking this country.
Take Deosha West, who grew up in Brunswick in a well-known churchgoing family.
Two years ago West, then 28, was pulled over on Altama Avenue by a white police officer while she was driving her mother to the doctor. She was being stopped, he said, because of the excessive tint on the windows of her vehicle. He issued her a ticket. A week later, the same officer pulled her over again in almost exactly the same spot. He accused her of speeding, which West denied. Their exchange got heated. Instead of citing her for alleged speeding, he cited her again for her car windows.
Bobby Henderson grew up in Brunswick’s Dixville neighborhood, a district where public housing abounds and poverty and drugs are rife. When he was 16, he and three high school friends from their advanced placement classes together were driving to another friend’s house for their regular weekend get-together to play cards. A police officer stopped their vehicle, pulled his gun and ordered the four Black youths to get out of the car and onto the ground. The officer searched the car for drugs. When he didn’t find any, he ordered them to go home, never explaining what they were allegedly doing wrong. thecurrentga.org/.
In 2020, five Democratic lawmakers, all members of the Black Caucus, introduced a bill at the state house designed to end racial profiling by police, require data collection and annual reporting about interactions with people of color. The bill died in committee without any Republican supporters.
We need those pastors there. Wonder if the defense would have a problem with white pastors? I doubt it but what White Pastor would go and stand against this killing in today’s times. Surely there is one out there.
Let us hope and pray for justice to be served.