Community leaders in Brunswick, Georgia, are preaching unity ahead of the trial of three white men accused of racially motivated murder in the shotgun death of a Black jogger.
A mural of Ahmaud Arbery is painted on the side of The Brunswick African American Cultural Center in downtown Brunswick, GeorgiaBRUNSWICK, Georgia -Community leaders in Brunswick, Georgia, are preaching unity ahead of the trial of three white men accused of racially motivated murder in the shotgun death of a Black jogger, anxious it does not stir racial tensions or violent protests in their small coastal city.
Community leaders are proud that Brunswick, population 16,000, was once dubbed a "Model City" for the collaboration by local Black and white leaders to desegregate schools, grocery stores, bowling alleys and other facilities even as racial conflict gripped other southern cities in the 1960s and 1970s.
"He was killed because he was a Black man in Brunswick," Marcus Arbery, Ahmaud's father, told Reuters as he stood in his son's tidy bedroom holding a portrait sent by a stranger to honor his son. "We want justice, but we don't want conflict," she said standing in her yard among a half-dozen signs that read "I run with Maud," and "Justice for Maud."
Among other preparations - the Glynn County school system has brought in consultants to coach teachers on how to talk about the trial with students, he said.
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