IN ARBERY MURDER ARE FOUND GUILTY THREE IN GEORGIA

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3 The men have also been in-dicted on separate federalcharges, including hate crimesand attempted kidnapping, andare expected to stand trial in Feb-ruary on those verdict suggested that thejury agreed with prosecutors ar-guments that Mr. ARBERY posed noimminent threat to the men andthat the men had no reason to be-lieve he had committed a crime,giving them no legal right to chasehim through their suburbanneighborhood. You can t start itand claim self-defense, the leadprosecutor argued in her closingstatements. And they startedthis. The outcome of the trial drewpraise from Mr. ARBERY s family,who had watched the proceedingsfrom inside the courthouse forweeks, and from civil rights lead-ers and activists across the coun-try. I never thought this day wouldcome, but God is good, saidWanda Cooper-Jones, Mr.

4 Ar-bery s Brian Kemp of Georgiasaid he hoped the verdicts wouldhelp lead to a path of healing andreconciliation. President Bidensaid the outcome reflected the jus-tice system doing its job. But s death, Mr. Biden said, isa devastating reminder of how farwe have to go in the fight for racialjustice in this country. From the beginning, Mr. Ar-bery s family and friends raisedquestions about local officials handling of the case. The threemen who were later chargedwalked free for several weeks af-ter the shooting and were ar-rested only after video footage ofthe fatal encounter was released,a national outcry swelled and thecase was taken over by the Geor-gia bureau of the verdicts were an-nounced, Mr. ARBERY s family andfriends were on edge. AkeemBaker, Mr. ARBERY s best friendfrom childhood, sat inside thecourthouse with his head bowedand his eyes red from crying.

5 I feel better, he the killing of Mr. Arberyin February 2020 did not reach thesame level of notoriety as the case THREE IN GEORGIAARE FOUND GUILTYIN ARBERY MURDERJury Rejects Claims of Self-Defense inShooting Death of a Black JoggerThis article is by Richard Fausset,Tariro Mzezewaand Rick the Glynn County Courthouse after the verdict was announced. I feel better, said a childhood friend of Ahmaud CRAINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESA hmaud ARBERY , 25, was shotand killed in Brunswick, REUTERSC ontinued on Page A20 When the pandemic came forGeorgia, Lauren Rymer had tomake a snap choice: her mother ssafety or what she believed wasbest for her young locked down her family forthe better part of last year, livingwith her mother, Sharon Mooney-han, who has multiple sclerosis,and protecting her by keeping herson Jack, 5, out of kindergarten toavoid routine household exposureto Covid. I didn t want my mom tomiss out on being with her onlygrandchild, Ms.

6 Rymer school was scrapped formushroom hunts in the forest be-tween her work Zoom calls, Legosand an intergenerational explora-tion of a backyard chicken upside was that she and hermother would not have to live infear of a life-ending snuggle week, Jack, now 6, donneda superhero costume and hit thelocal CVS in Lawrenceville, Ga., toget a Covid shot, his first step to-ward a return to school, and a fulllife beyond their suburban Atlan-ta home. This vaccine is much biggerthan a shot in the arm, Ms. Rymersaid. It s a huge weight off myshoulders. Millions of American parentshave spent the better part of thelast two years anxiously viewingtheir youngest family members Children s Shots Lift Big Burden In Some HomesBy JENNIFER STEINHAUERC ontinued on Page A15 The jury verdict on Tuesdayholding a dozen white suprema-cists liable for the violence at the2017 Unite the Right rally inCharlottesville, Va.

7 , was a victoryfor those who have long in-veighed against far-right extre-mists and a rare example of hategroup leaders being held respon-sible not only for the languagethey use, but also for the blood-shed they are accused of even though the plannersof the rally lost their civil trialand now confront the prospect of$25 million in damages, theirlegacy lives years after the event, thesame ideas that made Unite theRight a lightning rod for hategroups are increasingly beingechoed, albeit in modulatedtones, by prominent figures inconservative media and among them is the greatreplacement theory, which holdsthat Democrats and others onthe left are trying to supplantwhite Americans with immi-grants and others for their ownpolitical ideology s shift from themargins toward the center wasone of the leitmotifs of the nearlymonthlong trial. Its spread sug-gests why it was crucial to havebrought legal action against thedefendants in the first place,according to those who helped toplan the case.

8 Precisely becausetheir ideas have become moremainstream, it underscores whyit is so important to hold theseextremists accountable, saidAmy Spitalnick, executive direc-Charlottesville s Extremist Theories Echo in the Mainstream RightBy ALAN FEUERC ontinued on Page A22 NEWS ANALYSISHIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMESI nflating the Baby Yoda balloon, which joins the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade lineup. Page s Newest Little HelperBERLIN Olaf Scholz suc-ceeded in his campaign to becomethe next chancellor of Germanyprimarily by convincing votersthat he would be very much likethe towering and long-serving fig-ure he will replace: , well-briefed and abstain-ing from any gesture of triumph,Mr. Scholz not only sounded likethe outgoing conservative chan-cellor, he perfected the art of em-bodying her aura of stability andcalm to the point of holding hishands together in her signaturediamond shape.

9 He s like a soccer player whostudied videos of another playerand changed his game, said Rob-in Alexander, a long-term politicalobserver of both Ms. Merkel andMr. Scholz. From temperamentand political style all the waydown to facial expression Scholznow channels Merkel. If Scholzwas a woman he would wearpantsuits. As Mr. Scholz unveiled his newcenter-left government onWednesday and prepares to takeoffice next month, one questionfor Germany and for the whole ofEurope and the world is: Can hedeliver and fill Ms. Merkel s verybig shoes?Rarely has a German leadercome into office with so manyburning soon as he is sworn in aschancellor in early December, will have to deal with asurging pandemic, tensions at thePolish-Belarussian border, a Rus-sian president mobilizing troopson Ukraine s eastern border, amore confrontational China and aless dependable United States.

10 The pressure is huge, said In ChannelingMerkel, LeaderTakes the ReinsBy KATRIN BENNHOLDC ontinued on Page A8 FREMONT, Calif. Harris Mo-jadedi s parents fled Afghani-stan s communist revolution fourdecades ago and arrived as refu-gees in this San Francisco suburbin 1986, lured by the unlikely pres-ence of a Farsi-speaking doctorand a single Afghan grocery the decades, as more refu-gees settled in Fremont, the eclec-tic neighborhood became knownas Little Kabul, a welcoming placewhere Mr. Mojadedi s father, a for-mer judge, and his wife could bothsecure blue-collar jobs, find an af-fordable place to live and raisetheir children surrounded bymosques, halal restaurants andthousands of other Afghans. When I went to school, I sawother Afghan kids. I knew aboutmy culture, and I felt a sense of,like, that my community was partof Fremont, Mr. Mojadedi re-called recently over a game ofteka and chapli kebabs duringlunch with other young Afghansfrom the now, as the United Statesbegins to absorb a new wave ofrefugees who were franticallyevacuated from Kabul in the final,chaotic days of America s 20-yearwar in Afghanistan, it is far fromclear that a place like Fremontwould be an ideal destination forthem.