It’s a place where Arbery is deeply mourned and where in death he has been mocked. The colors that fill the sky at sunset over Glynn County’s many waterways have inspired poetry it is also home to four of the 23 federal Superfund sites in Georgia. It is here Ahmaud Arbery could quickly jog from his own mixed-race neighborhood, where the concrete on many of the driveways still appears new, to the overwhelmingly white enclave of Satilla Shores, where private riverfront docks can be found in the backyards behind what are mostly larger homes. 27, 2021.Īnd what is this place? It is a place of contrasts and closeness. Satilla Shores is one of many subdivisions full of single-family homes that sit just outside Brunswick, in an unincorporated part of the county.Ĭornell Harvey, mayor of Brunswick, Ga., in his office on Oct. It’s a majority-Black coastal city of about 16,000 people located in majority-white Glynn, which is home to about 85,000 and went 61% for Donald Trump last year.
“We’re pushed the spotlight,” says Cornell Harvey, 68, mayor of Brunswick, the city to which global media and protesters flocked for the trial.
But some of the answers to these questions lie here, in what has and has not changed since Ahmaud Arbery took a Sunday afternoon jog and was shot dead about two miles from his home. Read more: 3 Men Found Guilty of Felony Murder Charges in Trial Over Killing of Ahmaud ArberyĮven with the verdicts in, other questions remain unanswered, ones that have been hanging over Glynn County, Ga., in the time since Arbery died: What does it mean for this place that this happened here? What are the real implications of the freedom and equality this county-this country-insists it so values? What happened in Glynn County will, for many, feel eerily familiar so many quieter crises have flared up in other communities and either fizzled or exploded. The decision followed a nearly three-week trial-and more than a year during which the murder served as one of the flashpoints in the national conversation about race and justice in America. On Wednesday, a jury of 11 white and one Black Americans convicted father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan of murder and other charges connected to Arbery’s shooting death Travis McMichael was found guilty on all counts and the other two men on a majority of the nine with which they were each charged. It was in this neighborhood, cloistered under a canopy of live oak branches dripping with Spanish moss, that Ahmaud Arbery was killed in February 2020.
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