ATLANTA – The Georgia House Democratic Caucus (GHDC), led by House Minority Leader James Beverly (D-Macon), today responded to Governor Brian Kemp’s bipartisan plan to address Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute, which is an issue that Georgia House Democrats have worked to repeal before a video of Ahmaud Arbery’s death was released in 2020. The caucus is encouraged by the support of repealing and reforming the citizen’s arrest law since the release of this video, and the caucus believes the law is tied to slave-owning and emboldened three men to kill Mr. Arbery.
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