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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 4485507" data-attributes="member: 4805">Two county commissioners told the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/" target="_blank">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a> this week that Johnson&#039;s office blocked police from arresting the McMichaels after the shooting. &quot;The police at the scene went to (Johnson), saying they were ready to arrest both of them. These were the police at the scene who had done the investigation,&quot; Commissioner Allen Booker, who has spoken with Glynn County police, told the newspaper. &quot;She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael.&quot;&nbsp;When asked why it took months to arrest the McMichaels, the attorney general said Saturday: &quot;There&#039;s a lot of questions that are being asked, and I&#039;m asking the same thing.&quot; &quot;What I do know is that once the state was asked to participate it took 48 hours,&quot; he said of the arrests. Another Glynn County commissioner, Peter Murphy, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/09/georgia-attorney-general-investigate-local-officials-handling-ahmaud-arberys-murder/" target="_blank">told The Washington Post</a> that he too was told by police officials that they were instructed by Johnson&#039;s office not to make arrests. Murphy said he also plans to investigate the prosecutors and police agencies involved in Arbery&#039;s case.<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-attorney-general-to-look-into-how-ahmaud-arbery-case-was-handled-from-the-outset/" target="_blank">Georgia Attorney General to look into how Ahmaud Arbery case was handled &quot;from the outset&quot; - CBS News</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 4485507, member: 4805"] [I]Two county commissioners told the [URL='https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/']Atlanta Journal-Constitution[/URL] this week that Johnson's office blocked police from arresting the McMichaels after the shooting. "The police at the scene went to (Johnson), saying they were ready to arrest both of them. These were the police at the scene who had done the investigation," Commissioner Allen Booker, who has spoken with Glynn County police, told the newspaper. "She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael." When asked why it took months to arrest the McMichaels, the attorney general said Saturday: "There's a lot of questions that are being asked, and I'm asking the same thing." "What I do know is that once the state was asked to participate it took 48 hours," he said of the arrests. Another Glynn County commissioner, Peter Murphy, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/09/georgia-attorney-general-investigate-local-officials-handling-ahmaud-arberys-murder/']told The Washington Post[/URL] that he too was told by police officials that they were instructed by Johnson's office not to make arrests. Murphy said he also plans to investigate the prosecutors and police agencies involved in Arbery's case.[/I] [URL="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-attorney-general-to-look-into-how-ahmaud-arbery-case-was-handled-from-the-outset/"]Georgia Attorney General to look into how Ahmaud Arbery case was handled "from the outset" - CBS News[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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