A defense attorney for one of the White men charged with the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery likened a rally of pastors outside the Georgia courthouse Thursday to a “public lynching” of the defendants.
Attorney Kevin Gough, who was widely condemned for trying to bar Black pastors from the courtroom, made the eyebrow-raising comment Friday during a motion for a mistrial.
“This is what a public lynching looks like in the 21st century,” Gough told Glynn County Superior Judge Tim Walmsley, who promptly shot down the request. No jurors were present.
