Kaitlin Bennett is truly vile and her descent into far right wing toxicity continues with the coverage her web site ‘Liberty Hangout’ has been giving to the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, who was out for a jog when two white men shot him in a race fueled crime.
Bennett’s site tweeted a video that shows Arbery walk into a construction site, look around, then walk out. The caption to the tweet: “Just out for a jog.”
Just out for a jog pic.twitter.com/3WtnxGQ23T
— Liberty Hangout (@LibertyHangout) May 10, 2020
Several other tweets try to change the narrative of the story by retweeting another blogger who opines that he attempted to take away the shooters gun and went into the home looking for things to steal.
People aren’t saying that someone deserves to die for stealing. But you’re probably going to die when you try to take someone’s gun during a struggle. This isn’t hard to understand.
— Ashley Rae Groypenberg (@Communism_Kills) May 10, 2020
Daily Wire shills are out in full force saying it's totally normal behavior to trespass into other people's homes and look for things to steal. Conservatism in 2020 is just liberalism with lower taxes. pic.twitter.com/5d34NFohaK
— Liberty Hangout (@LibertyHangout) May 10, 2020
The owner of the property says he wasn’t robbed.
The men in the truck pointed their guns at him Wouldn’t you try to wrestle a gun away from someone pointing it at you? He had every right to try to defend himself. And it was wrong for them to chase him down and point their guns at him.
And then there’s this retweet, which just may be the worst of the worst.
-Arbery was not jogging
-He was inside construction
-He ran from the building
-There were multiple 9/11 calls
-Citizen's arrest is legal
-Police were en route
-There was a clear struggle
-Gregory McMichael knew Arbery from his work on a case involving him while working for police— Ashley Rae Groypenberg (@Communism_Kills) May 10, 2020
There were no burglaries in the area for several weeks before the shooting, according to police. Bennett has no idea why Arbery went into that construction site – he could have seen something that looked suspicious, heard a cat crying or simply wanted to look around.
And the citizens arrest defense doesn’t hold up here either. Georgia law on citizen’s arrest states someone had to commit a crime in their presence and that did not happen here..
Just the other day I commented while out on a walk with my husband that I’d been tempted to go look around in one of the houses being constructed in our neighborhood because I was curious what it looked like. Does that mean I deserve to be shot too?
The Liberty Hangout’s tweets are an attempt to gaslight people into believing there was justification for two white men gunning down a black man who, based on the videos that have been released, is the victim of a hate crime.
Bennett is defending scum who need to get the death penalty for what they did. Her mindset should not be embraced by the conservative movement and we should expel her out and denounce her toxic brand of hate vehemently.
I definitely have done this as an adult. I find it interesting. It never crossed my mind that anyone would chase me down with a shotgun because of it. https://t.co/bhiDdImIoj
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 10, 2020
Liberty Hangout has zero idea what liberty means. Not a SINGLE THING in this video or in this man's past means his murder was justified. The second amendment is beautiful, but it MUST be used responsibly, and that means calling out assholes who think they get to play cop. https://t.co/1F4fQn3HJI
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) May 10, 2020
In Georgia, to perform a citizen’s arrest, an individual has to have actual or immediate knowledge of a FELONY. This video does not capture a felony, & the murderers had no direct or actual knowledge of a crime. That said, this video does not justify murder. It proves nothing. https://t.co/2bTqWP1Mfy
— ADW (@AnreDarel) May 10, 2020