Ahmaud Arbery Is The Exception

The legal system produces justice in the same way that the lottery produces millionaires

Content Warning: this article discusses the lynching of a Black man in broad daylight. It’s very upsetting.

“The jury system works in this country. And when you present the truth to people and they could see it, they will do the right thing. And that’s what this jury did today in getting justice for Ahmaud Arbery.”

-Linda Dunikoski, prosecuting attorney

Joe Biden echoed Dunikoski’s sentiment in his White House press release. “While the guilty verdicts reflect our justice system doing its job,” he said, “that alone is not enough. Instead, we must recommit ourselves to building a future…where no one fears violence because of the color of their skin.”

This verdict will not return Arbery to the world of the living. Of course justice in the courtroom is not enough. But, according to Biden, justice does happen. Routinely. That’s why we call it the justice system.

(We’re not going to even get into the ridiculous shit conservatives had to say about the implications of the Arbery murder trial verdict: namely that it proves racism does not exist and the Left, as usual, is making everything about race for political reasons, next up Tucker Carlson on why Critical Race Theory will murder your grandchildren)