"Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Appeal Hate Crime Convictions Amid Racial Reckoning"

The killers of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man chased and killed in Georgia in 2020, are seeking to overturn their hate crime convictions. Their attorneys argue that evidence of past racist comments didn't prove a racist intent to harm and that Arbery was not killed on a public street as required for federal hate crime conviction. Prosecutors maintain that the men's actions were racially motivated and that there is sufficient evidence to support the guilty verdicts. The judges have not indicated when they will rule on the appeal.