The Attorney general of the Georgia State in America has called on a black woman to serve as the prosecutor to oversee the case of Ahmaud Arbery , the 25-year-old African-American man who was murdered in a shooting by two white men during the month of February.
Joyette M. Holmes is the appointed prosecutor and hails from Cobb County in the Atlanta metropolitan. Joyette is the first African-American to serve as district attorney, and was appointed on Monday.
The African-American woman becomes the very fourth prosecutor to hold the case after Tom Durden. Tom was reported to have requested for a replacement with a prosecutor with a larger staff citing the cases’ growth ‘in size and magnitude.’
District Attorney Holmes is a respected attorney with experience, both as a lawyer and a judge,’ state Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, said in a statement. ‘And the Cobb County District Attorney’s office has the resources, personnel and experience to lead this prosecution and ensure justice is done.’
It was confirmed by officials that she will be overseeing the prosecution of Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, who were practically charged with murder and aggravated assault after a graphic video of them pursuing Arbery in a pick-up truck and then shooting him dead in a Brunswick, Georgia street surfaced online last week.
‘ ‘In order for justice to be carried out both effectively and appropriately in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, it is imperative that the special prosecutor has no affiliation with the Southeast Georgia legal or law enforcement communities,’ attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement. He asked that Holmes ‘be zealous in her search for justice.’
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