Lawyer: 'We are going to bring 100 Black pastors' to Arbery death trial; defense attorney offers apology..🤔 A defense attorney in the trial of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery offered "my apologies" early Friday morning after fallout from his comments including the line, "We don't want any more Black pastors coming in here," a day prior.
Kevin Gough, the attorney for William "Roddie" Bryan, had asserted during a break on Thursday that figures, such as Al Sharpton, sitting with Arbery's family at the trial would be "political" and "intimidating" to the jury.Gough said "we have all kinds of pastors in this town" and asserted the family should only have a limited number of representatives with them. "The idea that we're gonna be serially bringing these people in to sit with the victim's family one after another, obviously there's only so many pastors they can have," he said. "And if their pastor is Al Sharpton right now, that's fine, but then that's it - we don't want any more Black pastors coming in here... Jesse Jackson, whoever was in here earlier this week sitting with the victim's family trying to influence the jury in this case."
That comment faced significant backlash on social media as well as one of Arbery family's advocates, civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Crump, who worked on the George Floyd trial, tweeted 11Alive's clip of the moment on Friday morning and vowed to "bring 100 Black pastors to pray with the family next week."
He also issued a statement welcoming others who want to show their support to the family.
