BREAKING: Travis McMichael, one of the white men who murdered #AhmaudArbery, was sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crimes. He is already serving life on state murder charges. He asked to be moved from state prison, where he claims he is getting death threats.
The judge denied a request to move Travis McMichael to federal prison, after he complained about getting threats in Georgia state prison. #AhmaudArbery's father welcomed the decision: "These three devils have broken my heart into pieces that cannot be found or repaired."
BREAKING: Gregory McMichael was sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crimes in the murder of #AhmaudArbery. Both he and his son Travis will now serve double life sentences, after previously being convicted on state murder charges.
Marcus Arbery, father of #AhmaudArbery, after his son's killers claimed that they feel unsafe in state prison: "We don't want no mercy." "They didn't even give him a chance to finish his run... and you're asking for the court to send you somewhere where you can be laid back?"
@ajplus I'm glad for this. Enough with the hugging and making up after a bigot has violated you. As the Italian partisans sang in WWII: Mercy is dead.