A jury in America has found the 3 white men who murdered black jogger Ahmaud Arbery guilty of federal hate crimes. Greg McMichael and his son Travis, and their neighbour William Bryan have already been given life sentences for killing Arbery in February 2020 when they grabbed guns and jumped into a truck to pursue the 25yo after they saw him running through their ‘nice’ neighbourhood in the city of Georgia. The murder was captured on mobile phone footage, and was been described as a modern-day lynching.  During the trial, prosecutors showed about 2 dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and his neighbour used racist slurs and made derogatory comments about black people. Witnesses testified that Greg McMichael ranted about black activists saying “all those Blacks are nothing but trouble.” Speaking outside court, Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones criticised the Department of Justice and said that the verdict “wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the fight that the family put up,” to have the charges heard.