Georgia attorney general seeks probe of local prosecutors in Ahmaud Arbery case

People pray during a rally to protest the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, in Brunswick, Ga. Local law enforcers are now being investigated in the shooting of a black man who was chased down by two white men in Georgia. Gen. Chris Carr asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and federal authorities to probe how local prosecutors handled the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Joyette M. Holmes replaces prosecutor Tom Durden, who Carr said asked to be replaced by a prosecutor with a large staff as “this case has grown in size and magnitude.” Holmes is based in metro Atlanta, far from the coastal Georgia community in Glynn County where the shooting happened, and is “a respected attorney with experience, both as a lawyer and a judge,” said Carr, a Republican. A lawyer for Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, asked Holmes to “be zealous in her search for justice.” “In order for justice to be carried out both effectively and appropriately in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, it is imperative that the special prosecutor has no affiliation with the southeast Georgia legal or law enforcement communities,” attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement. President Trump said Monday he’s following the case “very closely” and that Arbery “looks like a wonderful young guy.” “Certainly the video, it was a terrible-looking video to me,” Trump said.