Over a year and a half after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery outraged the country and presaged the civil rights demonstrations that followed the murder of George Floyd, three white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan, went on trial in Georgia.

Prosecutors described to the jury how the men chased, trapped and then killed the 25-year-old Black man during his Sunday jog near a construction site.

Greg McMichael said it perfectly. Mr. Arbery was trapped like a rat, that is what he told police, said State Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski in Glynn County Superior Court in Brunswick, Georgia.

The jury is composed of 11 white people and one Black person. Prosecutors asked Judge Timothy Wamsley this week to reinstate eight Black potential jurors and argued that defense lawyers had held them from the final jury due to their race.

Arbery was out for a jog in a residential neighborhood in Brunswick on February 23, 2020, when he was shot to death by the McMichaels, who do not contest they shot him. But Gregory McMichael told police he believed Arbery resembled a suspect involved in a string of robberies in the area.

Dunikoski showed a map outlining the location of Arberys home and where the construction site was located. Video footage showed Arbery walking around the construction site in the Satilla Shores neighborhood and then leaving as neighbors made a 911 call.

Arbery and other people in the neighborhood had previously been filmed near the construction site, but Dunikoski said that neighbors had told the McMichaels 12 days before the men shot Arbery that there was no evidence anything had been taken from the site. Rather, she said, the father and son acted off of a presumption that a Black man was a threat, chased Arbery and gunned him down in broad daylight when they saw him near the site again.

In 911 calls the prosecution played on Friday, Gregory McMichael is heard saying there is a Black man running down the streets moments before apparently shooting him.

They did everything they did based on assumptions. And they made decisions in their driveway that took a young mans life, Dunikoski told the jury at the beginning of her statement.