A man had called the cops of Ahmaud Arbery before he was killed in a struggle with Travis McMichael, noting that he looked suspicious “poking around a construction site” and said he didn’t appear that he was out for a jog due to his saggy pants:
NY POST – A Georgia man called the cops on slain black jogger Ahmaud Arbery minutes before he was gunned down — saying he was suspicious of Arbery’s “saggy pants,” according to a report.
The unidentified man, who lives in the Brunswick neighborhood where Arbery was killed by two white men on Feb. 23, told the Daily Mail he saw Arbery poking around a construction site about 350 yards from his home and called the police.
“I saw the fella earlier before it happened, and I called the police probably about 10 minutes before it happened,” the man told the outlet. “I didn’t call 911, I called the non-emergency number. I saw him running but he wasn’t running through the neighborhood.”
Asked why he was suspicious, he told Mail: “He wasn’t out for a jog, put it like that … You don’t go jogging wearing saggy pants, saggy shorts.”
There is surveillance footage of Arbery “poking around” the construction site:
Surveillance footage inside the half-finished home on the block shows a man believed to be Arbery looking through the construction site for nearly three minutes before he leaves.
The owner of the home, Larry English, issued a statement this week distancing himself from the incident and denouncing the McMichaels’ “vigilante response.”
English bought the property in June 2016 for $120,000 and has built much of the house — which is marked with a no trespassing sign, the Mail said.
I can understand why the man might have called the police on Arbery, especially if the home had a no trespassing sign and he was poking around it. Still, that doesn’t explain or justify the actions taken by the McMichaels, which resulted in Arbery’s death.
Also I looked at the video and those just look like shorts to me, not ‘saggy pants’. Maybe they were saggy at some point, but based on the short footage above they look fairly normal to me and something someone might jog in.