BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Ju­ry de­lib­er­a­tions re­sumed for a sec­ond day Wednes­day in the tri­al of the three white men charged with chas­ing and killing Ah­maud Ar­bery, with ju­rors re­view­ing the cell­phone video of the 25-year-old Black man be­ing blast­ed with a shot­gun on a res­i­den­tial street in coastal Geor­gia.

The ju­ry sent a note to Su­pe­ri­or Court Judge Tim­o­thy Walm­s­ley soon af­ter re­turn­ing to court Wednes­day morn­ing ask­ing to view two ver­sions of the shoot­ing video — the orig­i­nal and one that in­ves­ti­ga­tors en­hanced to re­duce shad­ows — three times apiece.

The ju­ry re­turned to the court­room to see the videos and lis­ten again the 911 call one of the de­fen­dants made from the bed of a pick­up truck about 30 sec­onds be­fore the shoot­ing.

The dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly white ju­ry is weigh­ing charges of mur­der and oth­er crimes against fa­ther and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neigh­bor William “Rod­die” Bryan. It re­ceived the case around mid­day Tues­day and spent about six hours de­lib­er­at­ing be­fore ad­journ­ing with­out a ver­dict.

The McMichaels told po­lice they sus­pect­ed Ar­bery was a flee­ing bur­glar when they armed them­selves and jumped in a pick­up truck to chase him on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pur­suit when they passed his house and record­ed cell­phone video of Travis McMichael blast­ing Ar­bery at close range with a shot­gun as Ar­bery threw punch­es and grabbed for the weapon.

On the 911 call the ju­ry re­viewed, Greg McMichael tells an op­er­a­tor: “I’m out here in Satil­la Shores. There’s a Black male run­ning down the street.”

He then starts shout­ing, ap­par­ent­ly as Ar­bery is run­ning to­ward the McMichael’s idling truck with Bryan’s truck com­ing up be­hind him: “Stop right there! Damn it, stop! Travis!” Gun­shots can be heard a few sec­ond lat­er.

Ar­bery’s killing be­came part of a larg­er na­tion­al reck­on­ing on racial in­jus­tice af­ter the graph­ic video of his death leaked on­line two months lat­er and the Geor­gia Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion took over the case, quick­ly ar­rest­ing the three men. Each of them is charged with mur­der and oth­er crimes.

De­fense at­tor­neys con­tend the McMichaels were at­tempt­ing a le­gal cit­i­zen’s ar­rest when they set off af­ter Ar­bery, seek­ing to de­tain and ques­tion him as a sus­pect­ed bur­glar af­ter he was seen run­ning from a near­by home un­der con­struc­tion.

Travis McMichael tes­ti­fied that he shot Ar­bery in self-de­fense, say­ing the run­ning man turned and at­tacked with his fists while run­ning past the idling truck where Travis McMichael stood with his shot­gun.

Pros­e­cu­tors said there was no ev­i­dence Ar­bery had com­mit­ted crimes in the de­fen­dants’ neigh­bor­hood. He had en­rolled at a tech­ni­cal col­lege and was prepar­ing at the time to study to be­come an elec­tri­cian like his un­cles.

Source: As­so­ci­at­ed Press