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The killing of Ahmaud Arbery highlights the danger of jogging while black

  • Written by Rashawn Ray, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
Footage captured the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery's life.Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Youtube

Unsteady cellphone footage follows a jogger – an apparently young, black man – as he approaches and attempts to run around a white pickup truck parked in the middle of a suburban road. Moments later he lies dead on the ground.

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