{"id":5572,"date":"2022-02-25T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:33:41","slug":"opinion-why-you-shouldnt-be-so-quick-to-applaud-the-hate-crime-convictions-of-ahmaud-arberys-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why you shouldn\u2019t be so quick to applaud the hate-crime convictions of Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s killers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month, the three men convicted in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/01\/07\/ahmaud-arbery-murder-sentencing\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to life imprisonment by a Georgia judge. Yet this week, they were convicted again for their roles in the killing, and will be sentenced again soon. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/02\/25\/double-prosecution-of-arbery-killers-a-dubious-idea\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the three men convicted in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery were\u00a0sentenced\u00a0to life imprisonment by a Georgia judge. Yet this week, they were convicted again for their roles in the killing, and will be sentenced again soon. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}