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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 4502399" data-attributes="member: 4805">Gregory McMichael, the former Georgia police detective whose actions in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were defended as a citizen’s arrest, was stripped of his law enforcement certification and power to arrest a year before the deadly encounter, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/13/ex-detective-accused-death-ahmaud-arbery-lost-power-make-arrests-after-skipping-use-of-force-training/" target="_blank">the Washington Post reports. </a>McMichael’s certification was suspended in February 2019 after repeated failures to complete required training, including a warning in 2014 that McMichael had neglected to finish mandatory firearms and use-of-force courses.District Attorney Jackie Johnson, the first prosecutor to handle the Ahmaud Arbery case, faces a new allegation about the handling of the investigation into a shooting that has shocked the nation. Glynn County commissioners Allen Booker and Peter Murphy claimed that Johnson’s office stood in the way of arrests. That’s more than notable because one of the defendants–Gregory McMichael, 64–used to work for her office at an investigator.“The police at the scene went to her, saying they were ready to arrest both of them,” Booker told <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/" target="_blank">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>. “These were the police at the scene who had done the investigation. She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 4502399, member: 4805"] [I]Gregory McMichael, the former Georgia police detective whose actions in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were defended as a citizen’s arrest, was stripped of his law enforcement certification and power to arrest a year before the deadly encounter, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/13/ex-detective-accused-death-ahmaud-arbery-lost-power-make-arrests-after-skipping-use-of-force-training/']the Washington Post reports. [/URL]McMichael’s certification was suspended in February 2019 after repeated failures to complete required training, including a warning in 2014 that McMichael had neglected to finish mandatory firearms and use-of-force courses.[/I] [I]District Attorney [B]Jackie Johnson[/B], the first prosecutor to handle the [B]Ahmaud Arbery [/B]case, faces a new allegation about the handling of the investigation into a shooting that has shocked the nation. Glynn County commissioners [B]Allen Booker [/B]and [B]Peter Murphy [/B]claimed that Johnson’s office stood in the way of arrests. That’s more than notable because one of the defendants–[B]Gregory McMichael[/B], 64–used to work for her office at an investigator. “The police at the scene went to her, saying they were ready to arrest both of them,” Booker told [URL='https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/']The Atlanta Journal-Constitution[/URL]. “These were the police at the scene who had done the investigation. She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael.”[/I] [/QUOTE]

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