Ahmaud Arbery’s mother is ‘upset’ over a plea deal offered to two of the men convicted of murdering her son.
After it was reported that Greg and Travis McMichael had accepted a plea deal on federal hate crime charges, Wanda Cooper-Jones told the New York Times that prosecutors “went behind my back” to offer the deal – claiming she was asked if she approved of the deal and said no.
Cooper-Jones says she wants the hate crime case to go to trial to “firmly establish that the men had been motivated by racism”, per NYT.
She added “I’m totally, totally upset. My anxiety is over the roof.”
The McMichaels, along with neighbor William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, were all sentenced to life in prison on murder charges earlier this month.
How do you feel about a plea deal being offered vs. taking the case to trial. Is another trial necessary when they’ve already been setenced to life in prison?