{"id":10260,"date":"2021-11-24T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10260"},"modified":"2021-11-30T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:26:31","slug":"sen-ossoffs-statement-on-verdict-in-trial-of-ahmaud-arberys-murderers","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoffs-statement-on-verdict-in-trial-of-ahmaud-arberys-murderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Statement on Verdict in Trial of Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s Murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI extend again my deepest and most heartfelt condolences to the Arbery family and my gratitude to the jury and court for their service.<br><br>\u201cAhmaud Arbery was a young man whose life was stolen from him, from his family, from the many who knew and loved him, and from the countless lives he would have touched in decades to come.<br><br>\u201cAhmaud Arbery\u2019s murderers will be held accountable, but a historic civil rights mobilization was necessary for the killers to face prosecution at all. There was nearly impunity for this murder, and further investigation is necessary to determine how and why officials initially refused to pursue the case.<br><br>\u201cThe circumstances of Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s murder and the struggle required to secure a prosecution demonstrate profoundly the urgency of reforms to make equal justice real in&nbsp;America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement: \u201cI extend again my deepest and most heartfelt condolences to the Arbery family and my gratitude to the jury and court for their service. \u201cAhmaud Arbery was a young man whose life was stolen from him, from his family, from the many who [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10260","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10260\/revisions\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}