The video looks like he ran around the truck and attacked the guy with the shotgun. Thats a good way to get shot. Just sayin.
Its not like he stopped hands up don't shoot and then the guy blasted him.
That's exactly what I've been saying all along. It looks like he was trying to run around the truck and come up on McMichael's blind side. He didn't think that McMichael would notice the flanking movement and got killed doing something stupid instead of doing a 180 and running away.
If anything, the video tends to exonerate McMichael because Arbery veered to the right to go around the passenger side of the truck. He could have kept on running but made a 90 degree turn to the left once he got to the front of the truck.
He could have kept running in the direction that he was going, after passing the truck. Keep in mind that he saw McMichael with the shotgun while he was about 20-30 yards behind the truck. If I see someone pulling a shotgun out of a truck in the middle of the road, I'm not going to continue in that direction.
It sure looks like Arbery is planning his attack on McMichael while he was running toward the truck, then he veers to right and the passenger side of the truck.
More surveillance video has been released that shows Arbery had visited/trespassed the house under construction several times since October 2019. Why? Keep in mind that the homeowner made several calls to the police about the trespasser and they did nothing.
Several questions remain about the video of the shooting:
1) William Bryan didn't publicize the video until much later. Why? He claims that he thought it would exonerate the McMichaels. From his perspective, on that day, it looked like Arbery was the attacker.
2) Did he release/show video of the shooting to the investigating officers at the scene of the shooting? He was there and remained and was cooperative with the cops.
3) If the officers did get the video, why wasn't it mentioned in the prosecutor's recusal letter to the police department?
A possible explanation for Bryan's lapse of memory about the video was that it was probably the first time he has ever seen a man killed. Seeing something traumatic like that causes all sorts of emotions and stress in people to the point that they block everything else out of their mind for a while.
Maybe he didn't release the video till later, thinking at the time, the police or others would think he was an accomplice. Imagine the question; "Sooooo Mr. Bryan; can you tell us exactly whyyyyyyy you JUST happened to have a video of the MURDER of an INNOCENT black man by two white rednecks?"
I researched a murder case from back in the eighties in which the defendant was wrongfully convicted and exonerated a couple of decades later. At the time, a woman provided the Sheriff's office with a key piece of first hand information. That information, if it wasn't discounted, would have caused any intelligent investigator to focus on the real culprits. Instead, the investigators and the entire county focused on the one suspect who happened to be convenient at the time.
The reason that I'm saying this is because, Mr. Bryan may have told the officers at the scene that he had video but they either got sidetracked, forgot about it or told him that they would get it later. Maybe an officer(s) did review the video at the scene but assumed that someone else would retrieve it.
Even though I've known some really intelligent LEOs through the years, some of them have the IQ of a dog turd. Mr. Byran may have been interviewed by a sub-intelligent life form with a badge.
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