>> Julie: FOX NEWS ALERT AN
REACTION IN GEORGIA AND AROUND
THE NATION AFTER THE JURY FOUND
ALL THREE MEN GUILTY OF MURDER
IN THE KILLING OF ARBERY.
THE VERDICT COMING AFTER TWO
DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS AND THE
DEFENDANTS NOW FACE THE
POSSIBILITY OF LIFE IN PRISON.
JEFF PAUL IS LIVE IN BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA, THE MORNING WITH THE
LATEST.
GOOD MORNING, JEFF.
>> GOOD MORNING.
A TENSE FEW WEEKS AS MANY IN
THIS COMMUNITY WAITED AND
WATCHED AS THIS TRIAL
PROGRESSED.
BUT ALL THAT NERVOUSNESS AND
ANXIETY COMING TO A CLOSE AS
THE JUDGE READ EACH COUNT
FINDING THE DEFENDANT GUILTY OF
MURDER.
[CROWD CHANTING]
>> MANY AS YOU JUST HEARD
ERUPTED IN CHEERS.
OTHERS STOOD IN SILENCE TAKING
IN THE MOMENT SAYING THAT
JUSTICE HAD FINALLY BEEN SERVED.
TRAVIS McMICHAEL THE MAN WHO
SHOT ARBERY THREE TIMES WAS
FOUND GUILTY AN OL NINE COUNTS. HIS FATHER AND A MAN WHO
HIS FATHER AND A MAN WHO
RECORDED A PORTION OF THE
SHOOTING WERE FOUND GUILTY ON
SOME CHARGES BUT WILL SPEND THE
REST OF THEIR LIVES IN PRISON.
11 WHITE JURORS AND ONLY ONE
BLACK JUROR.
PEOPLE LIKE REVEREND AL
SHARPTON SAYING THE GROUP MADE
UP OF MOSTLY WHITE PEOPLE IN
THE SOUTH STOOD UP AND SAID
BLACK LIVES MATTER WITH THE
RULING.
ARBERY’S FAMILY SAYS THEY ARE
RELIEVED SOMEONE IS BEING HELD
ACCOUNTABLE IN THEIR SON’S
DEATH.
THEIR HOPE IS THAT NO FAMILY
EVER GOES THROUGH THIS AGAIN.
>> NOT JUST BLACKS, WE DON’T
WANT TO SEE NOBODY GOING
THROUGH THIS.
I WOULDN’T WANT TO SEE NO DADDY
WATCH THEIR KID GET SHOT DOWN.
IT IS ALL OUR PROBLEM.
SO HEY, LET’S KEEP FIGHTING.
LET’S KEEP DOING IT AND MAKING
THIS PLACE A BETTER PLACE FOR
ALL HUMAN BEINGS.
>> THE FOREIGN FOR WILLIAM
RODDIE BRYAN SAYS HE WILL FILE
A MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL.
THAT WAS EXPECTED.
THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE TWO OTHER
DEFENDANTS McMICHAELS FATHER
AND SON ARE EXPECTED TO ALSO
FILE AN APPEAL SOON AFTER
SENTENCING.
JULIE.
>> Julie: BENJAMIN, WE’LL TOSS
IT TO YOU AND THANK YOU FOR
YOUR REPORT.
>> Benjamin: FOR MORE ON THIS
LET’S BRING IN TED WILLIAMS,
FORMER D.C. HOMICIDE DETECTIVE
AND FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN TODAY.
GEORGIA JURY FINDING ALL THREE
MEN GUILTY.
REMEMBER THE PROTESTS THAT
BROKE OUT WHEN THE VIDEO WAS
RELEASED OF ARBERY’S DEATH.
DO YOU THINK WITH THIS VERDICT
THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED?
>> HI, BENJAMIN.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR
AUDIENCE AND YOU AND JULIE.
YES, I DO BELIEVE THAT JUSTICE
HAS BEEN SERVED.
YOU HAD A YOUNG BLACK KID, ALL
HE WAS DOING WAS RUNNING
THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, OR AS
MY BROTHER WOULD SAY JOGGING
THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, AND
HERE HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
AND WHAT TOOK PLACE RIGHT AFTER
HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED WAS
SHOCKING BECAUSE IT WAS LIKE NO
ONE WANTED TO LISTEN TO THE
ARBERY FAMILY WHO ALWAYS FELT
THAT SOMETHING WAS SMELLY IN
THE DEATH OF THEIR CHILD.
AND THEY KEPT PUSHING THE
ENVELOPE UNTIL THEY WERE ABLE
TO GET A D.A. AND A JUSTICE
SYSTEM TO LISTEN TO THEM.
AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT FOR
A SECOND, AND THIS KID JOGGING
THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, THE
DEFENSE IN THIS CASE TRIED TO
MAKE THIS KID A BURGLAR.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE KID AND WHAT
HE WAS WEARING, I MEAN, WHAT
WAS HE GOING TO BURGLARIZE?
WHAT WAS HE GOING TO STEAL?
HE WAS AND HAD BEEN SEEN IN
THIS ONE HOUSE ON SEVERAL
OCCASIONS, BENJAMIN, BUT HE HAD
NEVER BEEN SEEN TO STEAL
ANYTHING.
AND HERE IT WAS, THESE
INDIVIDUALS TOOK IT UPON
THEMSELVES TO DO A CITIZENS
ARREST THAT RESULTED IN THE
DEATH OF THIS YOUNG MAN.
>> Benjamin: THESE CHARGES
NIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IF
IT WERE NOT FOR THE VIDEO
SURFACING AND BEING RELEASED.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?
>> YES.
I THINK YOU CAN SAY THAT THE
VIDEO THAT WAS SUPPLIED BY
RODDIE BRYAN, ONE OF THE
DEFENDANTS IN THIS CASE, THEY
THOUGHT IT WOULD HELP VINDICATE
THEM AND CLEARLY THAT VIDEO
HELPED TO PROSECUTE THEM FOR A
SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION.
BUT I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I GO
BACK AND REMEMBER EMMETT TILL,
A YOUNG BLACK MAN IN THE SOUTH
WHO WAS KILLED FOR ALLEGEDLY
WHISTLING AT A WHITE WOMAN.
I IMAGINE HE IN HIS GRAVE IS
CHEERING FOR WHAT HAS TAKEN
PLACE HERE, THAT JUSTICE WAS,
IN FACT, SERVED.
>> Benjamin: OF COURSE, THIS IS
THE SECOND CASE IN A WEEK THAT
USED SELF-DEFENSE THAT HINGED
ON THE IDEA OF SELF-DEFENSE.
THE RITTENHOUSE CASE BEFORE IT.
I WANTED TO READ YOU SOMETHING
FROM THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL"
EDITORIAL.
THEY SAID ARBERY FAMILY NOW HAS
JUSTICE OR WHATEVER JUSTICE THE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CAN
OFFER.
IT INCLUDED 11 WHITES, ONE
BLACK.
THEY LOOKED AT THE BLACKS AND
CAME TO A DECISION THEY
DESERVED TO BE TREATED WITH THE
SAME RESPECT.
THE JURY SYSTEM ISN’T PERFECT
BUT TRUST IT TO RENDER BETTER
JUSTICE THAN CABLE TV.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAY
THAT THE MEDIA PLAYED A ROLE IN
THESE CASES AND REALLY AS IS
SAID THERE SOME HYSTERIA AROUND
THEM?
>> WELL, THERE WAS.
THERE WAS SOME DIVISION, AS YOU
KNOW, WITH THE RITTENHOUSE
VERDICT.
AS YOU KNOW, KYLE RITTENHOUSE
DEFENSE WAS JUST THAT, THAT HE
USED SELF-DEFENSE.
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF
INDIVIDUALS WHO DID NOT BELIEVE
HIM.
BUT THE VIDEOS THERE ALSO
PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE
BECAUSE YOU COULD SEE THAT
THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE, IN
FACT, ATTACKING RITTENHOUSE.
SO JUSTICE WAS SERVED THERE I