#George barnhill

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Books Read December 2022

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

This was pitched to me as more of a speculative fiction concept and while the initial pitch is sort of in that vein it’s actually more slice-of-life describing the immense social changes Londoners have experienced from WWII to the early 2000s. I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. 

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

The concept of this sounded SO fabulous. It’s an alternate history book where abused or subjugated women can transform into dragons and follows a period in the 1950s when there was a mass dragoning event. But I didn’t find it that well thought out as historical fiction and anytime Barnhill tried to examine how this would have worked intersectionally it falls apart. Also some passages just sound so goofy. I was not surprised to find afterwards Barnhill used to mostly write for kids. 

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I mostly don’t like the Eliot books I read and I have no idea why I started this one except that one day I was craving the lush maximalism of Victorian era writers. OMG this is truly the first Eliot book I’ve connected with. It’s mostly about a small town brother and sister who undergo terrible things in life and talks a lot about debt both monetarily and emotionally. Incredibly interesting. I loved Thomas Hardy as a teen and this is the first time I can really see how he was influenced by Eliot. This work is melodramatic, sure, but also incredibly complex morally. The ending was sadly disappointing but everything until that point was fascinating. 

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

This is a novel-in-stories set in a future world hit hard by a pandemic. I liked a lot of the stories but the end kind of fell apart and was over-explainy. Still an enjoyable read overall. A lot of the stories dealt with parent child relationships and grief and those are things that really interest me. 

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Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with 26 Dragon-y Books!

大家，新年快乐！Happy New Year, everyone! Today, February 10th, is Lunar New Year, and in many countries that use the lunar calendar, the new year to come is the year of the dragon, so we thought it’d be fun to share some of our favorite books featuring dragons! These books have a mixture of dragon type (some more Western, some more Eastern), and some are queer and some aren’t. The common theme is the prominence of dragons in the plot, because we LOVE dragons!

The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen series) by K.S. Villoso

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li

The Tea Dragon Society (The Tea Dragon Society series) by K. O’Neill

Hands Off, Evil Dragon! by Kitty Roe Factory

Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Wyrms: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles by Eric Fomley

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Nampeshiweisit series) by Moniquill Blackgoose

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos series) by Samantha Shannon

Seraphina (Seraphina series) by Rachel Hartman

Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal series) by Zen Cho

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen series) by Aliette de Bodard

Wild Magic (The Immortals series) by Tamora Pierce

Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers series) by Jessica Day George

Dragon (Five Ancestors series) by Jeff Stone

Magyk (Septimus Heap series) by Angie Sage

Dragon Keeper (Dragon Keeper series) by Carole Wilkinson

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon series) by Alison Goodman

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon series) by Grace Lin

Dragon-Ridden (Dragon Ridden Chronicles series) by T.A. White

His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire series) by Naomi Novik

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

What are your favorite dragon books? We’d love to add to our list!

The contributors to list this are: @thechaoscryptid @owlouterbridge @hermit-writes @nursinggeek @unforth @Shadaras @hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon @tryslora and an anonymous contributor

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Hi quil what are the books you like about dragons I want to find them I feel like I’ve asked this before oops

Someone's asked, but I have no problem revisiting it!

The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda; with one of my favorite depictions of dragon/rider bonds I've ever seen, we follow Annie, Lee, and the other young dragonriders of Callipolis as it tries to establish itself in the aftermath of a violent revolution. Annie, former serf, and Lee, former royal, grew up in an orphanage together in the aftermath, and together have risen to the top of the new regime as dragonriders. But the regime is untested and flagging under the stress, and did the revolution even fix anything? With beautiful character relationships, arcs, plot, and politics, Aurelian Cycle is a delight to read

The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan; Lady Isabella Trent, now an old woman, tells the story of how she became the world's most renowned dragon naturalist, literally changing the world, via her memoirs. Dragon's are little understood beasts, but they've enchanted her since childhood. Overcoming sexism and the infinite political hoops of science, we follow her rise to the top--involving her personal life, her professional life and its politics, uncovering the biology and past cultures of dragons/dragon-centric societies, I adore this series.

To Shape A Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose; Anequs discovers an egg indigenous to her island and bonds with its hatchling, the species thought to have disappeared years ago. But there's all sorts of rules by the colonizing Anglish society when it comes to dragons, and to prevent them from taking out their wrath on her people, she must attend their school to learn how to handle the hatchling as they see fit--but her customs and theirs consistently clash as one of the only girls and one of only two Indigenous people at the school. The thorough worldbuilding, character relationships, and real-world complex topics of culture and colonization make this book absolutely gripping--I eagerly await the sequel

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill; In the 1950s, thousands of women across America spontaneously turned into dragons and left society behind. No one talks of it directly, dragoning a distinctly feminine and therefore shameful thing. Alex loses her aunt to dragoning, and her mother to illness--and finds herself responsible for her young niece at only 16, who keeps looking to the skies. She struggles to find herself as the world struggles against the continued dragoning of women who are tired of being made to feel small. It's a lovely story of femininity and empowerment and self, though it does focus near exclusively on white womanhood.

Those are the first that come to mind--I've also enjoyed The Ice Dragon by George R.R. Martin, which is a quick read. And A Chorus of Dragons, but despite the title that's not really about dragons.

I've recently acquired some new dragon books though, so perhaps soon I can add them to this list!

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Preliminary Round Winners

Round 1: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Eliminations: none

Round 2: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Eliminations: Legend by Marie Lu

Round 3: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Eliminations: none

Round 4: Little House by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Eliminations: Lux by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Round 5: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Eliminations: none

Round 6: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage

Eliminations: Last Survivors by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Round 7: Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz

Eliminations: none

Round 8: The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce

Eliminations: none

Round 9: Nevermoor by Jessica Townshend

Eliminations: none

Round 10: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Eliminations: none

Round 11: American Girl by Various Authors

Eliminations: Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

Round 12: Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol

Eliminations: none

Round 13: Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson

Eliminations: none

Round 14: Tiebreaker ongoing

Eliminations: none

Round 15: Ever by Gail Carson Levine

Eliminations: none

Round 16: Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

Eliminations: none

Round 17: The Hardy Boys by Franklin D. Dixon

Eliminations: none

Round 18: Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Eliminations: none

Round 19: Ever After High by Shannon Hale

Eliminations: none

Round 20: The Icemark Chronicles by Stuart Hill

Eliminations: none

Round 21: Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke

Eliminations: none

Round 22: My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville

Eliminations: none

Round 23: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Eliminations: Killer Unicorns by Diana Peterfreund

Round 24: Upside-Down Magic by Emily Jenkins, Sarah Miynowski, and Lauren Myracle

Eliminations: none

Round 25: Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Eliminations: none

Round 26: Fairy Wings by E. D. Baker

Eliminations: Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill

Round 27: The Puppy Place by Ellen Miles

Eliminations: none

Round 28: Animal Ark by Lucy Daniels

Eliminations: none

Round 29: A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd

Eliminations: none

Round 30: Ten Kids, No Pets by Ann M. Martin

Eliminations: none

Round 31: Magic Puppy by Sue Bentley

Eliminations: none

Round 32: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Eliminations: The Country Child by Alison Uttley, Corydon by Tobias Druitt

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three years after a former Georgia district attorney was indicted on charges alleging she interfered with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the case's slow progression through the court system has sputtered to a halt, one the presiding judge insists is temporary.

Jackie Johnson was the state's top prosecutor for coastal Glynn County in February 2020, when Arbery was chased by three white men in pickup trucks who had spotted him running in their neighborhood. The 25-year-old Black man died in the street after one of his pursuers shot him with a shotgun.

Johnson transferred the case to an outside prosecutor because the man who initiated the deadly chase, Greg McMichael, was her former employee. But Georgia's attorney general says she illegally used her office to try to protect the retired investigator and his son, Travis McMichael, who fired the fatal shots.

Both McMichaels already have been convicted and sentenced to prison in back-to-back trials for murder and federal hate crimes. So has a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, whose cellphone video of the shooting triggered a national outcry over Arbery’s death. A court heard their first appeals six months ago.

The criminal misconduct case against Johnson has moved at a comparative crawl since a grand jury indicted her on Sept. 2, 2021, on a felony count of violating her oath of office and a misdemeanor count of hindering a police officer.

While the men responsible for Arbery's death are serving life sentences, the slain man's family has insisted that justice won’t be complete until Johnson stands trial.

“It’s very, very important,” said Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery's mother. “Jackie Johnson was really part of the problem early on.”

Johnson has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. After losing reelection in 2020, she told The Associated Press that she immediately recused herself in the handling of Arbery's killing because of Greg McMichael's involvement.

Johnson's case has stalled as one of her attorneys, Brian Steel, has spent most of the past two years in an Atlanta courtroom defending Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug against racketeering and gang charges. Jury selection in the case took 10 months, prosecutors began presenting evidence last November and they are still calling witnesses.

Senior Judge John R. Turner, who was assigned to Johnson’s case, insists there is nothing he can do but wait.

“If anyone’s concerned that the case is being shuffled under the rug, I can guarantee you it’s not,” Turner told the AP in a phone interview. “It’s moving at a snail’s pace, but it will move forward eventually.”

After Arbery was killed, Greg McMichael told police that he and his son had armed themselves and chased the Black man, suspecting he was a fleeing criminal. Bryan, who didn't know any of the men, made a similar assumption after seeing them pass his home and joined in his own truck.

The indictment against Johnson alleges she told police they shouldn't arrest Travis McMichael. It also accuses her of “showing favor and affection” to Greg McMichael by calling on George Barnhill, a district attorney in a neighboring judicial circuit, to advise police about how to handle the shooting.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr appointed Barnhill four days later to take over as outside prosecutor. Carr has said he picked Barnhill without knowing he already had advised police that he saw no grounds for arrests in Arbery's death.

Barnhill stepped aside after a few weeks, but not before he sent a letter to police captain arguing the McMichaels acted legally and Arbery was killed in self-defense.

After Johnson was charged, she reported to jail for booking and was released without having to post bond. Her attorneys waived a formal reading of the charges before a judge and she has yet to appear in court. The judge denied legal motions by Johnson’s lawyers to dismiss the case last November. Court records show no further developments over the past 10 months.

“Securing an indictment is just one step in our ongoing pursuit of justice for Ahmaud Arbery and his family," Carr said in a statement. "We have never stopped fighting for them, and we look forward to the opportunity to present our case in court.”

Johnson's attorneys, Steel and John Ossick, did not respond to emails and a phone message seeking comment. They have argued in court filings there is “not a scintilla of evidence” that she hindered police.

Prosecutors responded with a court filing that listed 16 calls between phones belonging to Johnson and Greg McMichael in the weeks following the shooting.

Two legal experts who aren't involved in the case said there is no deadline for Johnson to stand trial. She hasn't been jailed, so there is little pressure to expedite her case.

Steel's prolonged absence because of the Atlanta gang trial likely isn't the only factor slowing the case, Atlanta defense attorney Don Samuel said.

Courts remain saddled with a backlog of cases since the COVID-19 lockdowns, he said. And the attorney general's office has a limited staff of criminal prosecutors with their own busy caseloads.

Samuel also questioned whether prosecutors have a strong case against Johnson. Even if she opposed charging the McMichaels in Arbery's death, he said, prosecutors haven't accused her of taking bribes or similar blatant corruption.

District attorneys “have a huge amount of discretion to make decisions about what cases to pursue,” Samuel said. “The notion that we’re going to start prosecuting DAs for prosecuting or not prosecuting strikes me as really being on the edge of propriety.”

Danny Porter, the former district attorney for Gwinnett County in metro Atlanta, said prosecutors like Johnson have a legitimate role in advising police on whether or not to arrest suspects before an investigation is complete.

As for Johnson's recommendation in 2020 that the attorney general replace her with another prosecutor who concluded Arbery's killing was justified, Porter said: “I don’t think that’s a violation of the law, though it might have made them mad.”

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20 Books Challenge

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

Tagged by @franticvampirereads , thank you for the challenge!

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Ice Dragon by George R.R. Martin

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Devotions by Mary Oliver

Lassie by Eric Knight

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park

The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian

The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkine

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Tithe by Holly Black

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill

Tagging: @balaenabooks @introvertia @the-forest-library and @stefito0o

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Ahmaud Marquez Arbery (May 8, 1994 - February 23, 2020) was shot and killed while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia. He was pursued by three armed white men. His death resulted in widespread protests in the US and around the world.

He was born to Marcus Arbery Sr. and Wanda Cooper-Jones. Known as “Maud” or “Quez”, he was a star football player at Brunswick High School. He attended South Georgia Technical College where he trained as an electrician.

He was jogging in Brunswick’s Satilla Shores neighborhood. Using the vehicles to block his path as he tried to run away. Two of the men, Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, were armed in one vehicle. Their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, was in another vehicle. Travis McMichael exited his truck and assaulted him with a shotgun. Travis McMichael fatally shot him. Bryan recorded this confrontation and his murder on his cell phone.

District Attorney George Barnhill determined there was no cause to arrest the individuals involved. He stated that under state law the McMichaels had brandished their firearms legally and were within their rights to pursue an individual who they believed had been involved in criminal activity. Barnhill found the use of deadly force was justified, as McMichael claimed to have been defending himself from what he described as an attack by him.

A video recorded by Bryan was posted online. To many observers, including members of his family, the footage revealed the McMichaels to have been the aggressors who instigated the confrontation, with him fighting back in self-defense. Bryan informed investigators that Travis McMichael had used a racial epithet while standing over his dead body.

On May 8, supporters around the country paid tribute to him by jogging 2.23 miles, a reference to the date he was killed. In June 2020, motivated by his killing, Georgia enacted new hate crime laws.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reopened the case in response to public outrage over the video. Agents arrested the McMichaels and Bryan, charging all three with felony murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #blm

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top 5 books (or top 5 youtubers if you dont read)

oogh....there are so many good books......ok im just gonna make a list of the ones that are my faves right now

Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro

Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

Spear by Nicola Griffith

The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Fire Eaters by David Almond

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

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Review of 1984 by George Orwell

Quintuple plusgood. What else can you say? I think this is the third time I’ve read this book and it never ceases to amaze. Orwell completed the first draft of this book at Barnhill on Jura, an isolated house overlooking the sea towards the Scottish mainland. I was there in April 2023. It’s a quiet and lovely spot. What struck me this time about the book were the use of telescreens and Newspeak…

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Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Spear by Nicola Griffith, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi, or The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing? You decide! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Books We Pitched

Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith

Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Vote for which we should read!

Our “Long List” of Titles

Meghan

Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan (Wikipedia)

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Jam

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Anna

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love (Jacob Geller video in which he recommended this book in the outro.)

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

Matthew

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

The New Teen Titans, vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Romeo Tanghal

Podcast Episodes

Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs (listen to the end of this episode!)

Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?

Episode 083 - The Fifth Season

Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020

Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021

Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Episode 154 - Book pitches

Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Links, Articles, Books, and Things

The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear

French Makes No Sense: Pronouns by Loic Suberville

Gender Reveal: Episode 136 with Sabrina Imbler

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1 by LambCat

Read on Webtoon

Jacob Geller - Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

Teen Titans Go! (Wikipedia)

15 Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes

Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen

The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel

The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust

From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust

Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

Severance by Ling Ma

Popisho by Leone Ross

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

Super Extra Grande by Yoss

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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Then on Tuesday, August 15th we’ll be talking about books and other media we’ve recently enjoyed in our Summer 2023 Media Update!

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Former Prosecutor Jackie Johnson Receives Court Date In Ahmaud Arbery Case

Justice almost didn't happen at all in this case, and we're still waiting for it to come to completion.

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Alot of people like to argue that Ahmaud Arbery‘s case proves justice can be served in cases where racist white men kill unarmed Black people after Arbery’s killers were all convicted and given life sentences.

Those people forget that it almost wasn’t so. They forget that it took more than two months for anyone to be arrested for Arbery’s killing. They forget that local authorities did their damndest to sweep the case under the rug. They forget that Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill, who ultimately recused himself from the case, initially determined that Greg and Travis McMiceal “were following, in ‘hot pursuit,’ a burglary suspect, with solid first-hand probable cause, in their neighborhood, and asking/ telling him to stop,” and he referred to Arbery as a “criminal suspect.” They forget that Barnhill was called in by former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, who was indicted last year after being accused of aiding Greg McMichael, who worked in her office until 2019, in avoiding arrest along with Travis.

Well, now, 15 months after Johnson’s indictment, the former prosecutor has finally received her court date. According to the Associated Press, on Tuesday, Superior Court Judge John R. Turner scheduled Johnson’s arraignment for Dec. 29.

As previously reported, Johnson was charged with hindering the police investigation into Arbery’s killing in September of last year after prosecutors said Greg called her directly after the shooting and Johnson responded by showing “favor and affection” toward Greg and interfered with police by “directing that Travis McMichael should not be placed under arrest.”

In fact, according to AP, prosecutors listed a total of 16 calls between Greg and Johnson that allegedly occurred in the days and weeks following the shooting.

When Johnson appears in court, she will have a chance to enter a plea after the charges are formally presented, and Turner said he will also hear arguments regarding pending legal motions, which include a request by Johnson’s attorneys to have one of the charges dismissed.

Finding justice for Ahmaud Arbery has been a long uphill battle that started with a months-long struggle to get anyone arrested for the murder at all. If not for video footage of the shooting and public outcry to have the killers brought to justice, Arbery’s case would likely have been lost under the heel of local cronies in law enforcement who were willing to scratch the McMichael’s backs and let them skate on a heinous hate crime.

It proves that regardless of how many involved get charged and convicted, Arbery’s case is not one that should prompt complacency in regard to how racial justice is handled in America.

Justice almost didn’t happen at all in this case, and we’re still waiting for it to come to completion.

SEE ALSO:

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136 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police

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AHMAUD ARBERY , JACKIE JOHNSON

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hi!! not sure if ur taking asks rn for the books but heres some of my favs:

the moon base alpha trilogy by stuart gibbs

the chronicle of the dark star series by kevin emerson

the adventurers guild series by zack clark and nick eliopulos

george's secret key to the universe by lucy and stephen hawking

the bridge home by padma venkatraman(made me cry fr)

ths serafina series by robert beatty

the septimus heap series by angie sage

the ascendance series by jennifer nielsen

the witch's boy by kelly barnhill

sorry if theres any repeats and sorry for the long list!! i just found this poll but i alr love it tysm for doing this mod <33 :) my childhood was books so yeah lol :D

Everything except Septimus Heap and Serafina, which were recommended before, have been added! What is it with incredibly sad children’s books and bridges lol

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Stand Your Ground got buried.

The new overseer/Jim Crow dog whistle is “Citizen’s Arrest.”

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Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was shot to death on Feb. 23 in Brunswick — a coastal city about midway between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida — after being followed by Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, his son, in their pickup truck. The McMichaels are white.

Arbery's family says he was out jogging, while the McMichaels have said they thought he was a burglar, according to the Glynn County police report. Gregory McMichael armed himself with a .357 Magnum and his son grabbed a shotgun after Gregory McMichael saw Arbery "hauling ass" down the street, the police report said. According to the report, a third man — later identified as a neighbor, William Bryan — tried to block Arbery during the pursuit.

Gregory McMichael told police that he thought Arbery was a burglar who had recently been targeting the neighborhood. The McMichaels told police that when they caught up with Arbery, he attacked Travis McMichael, who fired his weapon in self-defense.

The Brunswick News, citing documents obtained through a public records request, reported that there had been just one confirmed burglary in the neighborhood from Jan. 1 to Feb. 23: the theft of a handgun from an unlocked truck parked outside Travis McMichael's house on Jan. 1.

Feb. 27: The first prosecutor recuses herself

On Feb. 27, the Brunswick area district attorney, Jackie Johnson, recused herself from the case, noting that Gregory McMichael, a former Glynn County police officer, had been an investigator in her office for more than 30 years before he retired in May 2019.

April 2: The Brunswick News publishes details of the police investigation

On April 2, The Brunswick News published an online article with details from the Glynn County police report.

Gregory McMichael said that after the pursuit, Arbery began to "violently attack" Travis McMichael and that the two "started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot."

Gregory McMichael said Arbery "fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body."

He told police he then searched Arbery for a gun, the report said. The report ends without stating whether Arbery had a gun. Arbery's family says he was unarmed.

April 3: A second prosecutor recuses after finding no reason to charge the McMichaels

George Barnhill, one of the prosecutors who first handled the case, defended the actions of the McMichaels and Bryan, who recorded a video of the shooting. In a letter recusing himself, addressed to a Glynn County police captain, Barnhill said the three had "solid first hand probable cause" to pursue Arbery, a "burglary suspect," and stop him. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the letter was issued April 3.

"It appears their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived," he wrote.

Barnhill, who said he watched the video, said Travis McMichael "was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself" under state law because Arbery had initiated the fight and grabbed the shotgun.

April 13: A third prosecutor takes over the case

The case was transferred to Thomas Durden, the district attorney for Georgia's Atlantic Judicial Circuit, "on or about" April 13, according to a letter Durden released May 5. He announced his intention to present the case to the next available Glynn County grand jury "for the consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery."