A US district judge in the state of Georgia on Monday sentenced father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael to life in prison for federal hate crimes over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging in a suburban neighborhood when three white men chased and shot him in February 2020.
The McMichaels and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, had been convicted of counts of murder and kidnapping.
Monday’s sentencing is largely symbolic, as the trio are…