Former Georgia District Attorney Jackie Johnson had charges dismissed this week, stemming from her failure to sufficiently and aggressively prosecute the individuals convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in 2020. Johnson, the former Glynn County DA, has now been cleared of all charges after three years of being prosecuted.
Johnson was charged with “violating her oath of office” in the wake of Arbery’s death, which in Georgia is a felony with a one to five year potential prison sentence. Another charge of “obstructing With passions high, Johnson was seen as insufficiently aggressive towards the defendants because she sought to recuse herself from the case. She claimed her recusal was because one of the defendants had previously worked for the DA’s office. Her detractors claimed she was trying to coordinate a backroom deal for defendants to get let off.
This past week Johnson tearfully said she never coordinated any backroom deal, she was just trying to avoid an obvious conflict of interest.
Johnson’s attorneys claimed there was not enough evidence to convict her. Senior Judge John R. Turner agreed, saying there was not “a scintilla of evidence” to support the charges after the state had presented its case, even though the charges lingered and proceeded in the courts for years. Johnson was accused of pressuring the police not to file charges against the white defendants.
Criminal prosecutions are not supposed to advance to trial in the first place if there is no evidence to support the charges, and legal experts tell the Gateway Pundit that such outcomes are often the hallmark of political prosecutions.
As the Judge dismissed charges against Johnson, he nevertheless expressed sympathy for Arbery as he was ending the prosecution of Johnson, saying “When I think of this situation, I get a very deep sense of sadness.”
Georgia’s Republican Attorney General, Chris Carr had even attempted to prosecute the prosecutor and imprison her. Carr is now running for Governor of Georgia to replace Brian Kemp who is termed-out next year.
Ahmaud Arbery was a 25 year old black man who died in Georgia after an altercation with three white men. The white men were coming after Arbery because, they claimed, they had just witnessed him robbing a house in the neighborhood. The case was inflamed by national Democrat activists and it became another in a long line of racially-inflamed cases where the actual facts of the case were purposefully mis-reported by the national media and left-wing politicians.
The media framed the story as a senseless hate crime of three white men who hunted down a peaceful law-abiding Arbery. The media and prosecutors ignored any evidence that Arbery had, in fact, been trespassing inside of a local home and also ignored the video evidence showing Arbery attacking the white man who approached him with a shotgun.
The mainstream media, working in tandem with left-wing pressure groups, have made a regular national passion play about alleged racial injustices despite the underlying facts. In 2012 the media tried to convict George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin, suppressing the fact that Martin attacked Zimmerman and fought for his gun. In 2014 the media tried to convict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Mike Brown, suppressing the fact Brown had attacked Brown and fought for his gun. In 2020 the media helped convict Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, suppressing any facts related to the possible fentanyl-linked death by drug overdose.
In the Arbery case, the media actively suppressed the fact the man fought for the shotgun when approached on the street, and also covered up the information released at trial that he had been trespassing throughout the house in the neighborhood, shifting the assumption of the motives of the three white men from simply hunting down black joggers to, as they alleged, investigating a possible in-progress neighborhood robbery.
The three white men were prosecuted in both state and federal courts. Two of the men received life sentences without the possibility of parole plus additional time. The third man, William Bryan, received 35 years imprisonment. The trio were convicted of federal hate crimes for having pursued Arbery and ended up in a violent fight with him.
Even though the whites were given life sentences, Joe Biden fanned the flames at the time by saying it was still “not enough.”
But the left-wing national lynch mob out to get street justice for Arbery by pressuring the state prosecutors and federal prosecutors to convict the three men, and then even going so far as to demand the prosecutor be prosecuted for seeking to recuse her office. The left-wing pressure was successful in getting life sentences against two of the white men, multi-decade imprisonment for the third man, and three years of prosecution against the white prosecutor who initially refused to go along.
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