Better copies of the video here:
www.liveleak.com/view?t=9HlLa_1588700357
Copy of the police report here:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthe...52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Copy of the District Attorney's here for quick reference here:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthe...52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Link to portion of the construction site video here:
Always the same people on this site making the same biased conclusions and spouting bullshit.
Since you seemed to have missed it, the guy who shot the video was Bryan William, and he was in pursuit of Arbery with the McMichaels (DA letter page 2, section "third", first sentence).
This was not their first attempt to stop Arbery (Police report page 2 paragraph 3).
Arbery was NOT wearing boots, sneakers can be clearly seen as he falls to the ground at the 0:27 mark in the above linked shooting video. Also in the construction site vid, but that is only 5 seconds of a 3 min vid so I'm not relying on it yet (still looking for a full video).
If that is a "hammer" on the ground at the 0:12 mark, when did it end up there? I can't see any movement on Arbery's part to throw it there, and he never goes close enough to the spot to have just droped it there (why would he drop a potential weapon when these men are on their second attempt to apprehend him, and he has a clear line of site to Travis and can most likely see the shotgun by then?). You can also see a similar object on the ground 15 feet before the "hammer" at 0:08, I would guess it is a fallen bit of branch.
As for why he attacked instead of "running away"? As already stated this was not their first attempt to cut him off. At 0:13 you see him run up the right side of the truck, at 0:15 you see Travis has come around the front of the truck to cut him off, at 0:16 you here the first gunshot just as (or just before) Arbery reaches Travis.
You claim Arbery "attacked" Travis, but Travis made no attempt to keep distance between himself and Arbery, just the opposite, he moves to close the distance. You can't initiate a confrontation and then claim self defense. The fact is, if Travis had stayed in the truck he wouldn't have been in danger, if he hadn't closed the distance Arbery wouldn't have been able to try and disarm him, if the three yokels hadn't doggedly pursued the man he might not have decided fighting back was his only option. They are 100% liable for the entire situation, and are therefor the aggressors.
Based on currently available evidence, they ran a man down and ended up killing him for the "crime" of trespassing. And before you even start with that "why was he on the construction site if not to steal" deflection, as an architect with 20yrs of time under my belt I can tell you that people come onto open construction sites all the time out of shear curiosity about what a building under construction looks like.
While we are throwing out what ifs, did Bryan William cock a weapon at 0:10? Why would he do that when a confrontation hadn't yet occurred? Perhaps the three yokels meant to use Arbery for target practice and then rape his corpse. Isn't speculation fun.
Let do a cognitive dissonance check:
Say you are a black man out for a run in rural Georgia. You decide to take a break from the heat and see an open building under construction. You decide to go in and have a look around/get out of the sun for a couple minutes. Some person sees you and yells at you (reported but not yet verified). You tweak and book it. A few minutes later, 3 white men in 2 trucks (assuming Bryan was in a truck from the camera angle/height) try to cut you off and tell you to stop. You successfully evade them ("jesus, all I did was look around an unoccupied open building"). Then they chase you and cut you off again. This time 1 of the trucks/men is behind you, and the other is ahead of you (flanked). Now one of these crackers is standing in the road with a fucking shotgun. You try to run around them again but the guy with the gun is moving to intercept while "I said stop god damn it" (911 tape Greg portion).
What would you do?
Now imagine the same situation except you're you, and it's 3 "13%ers" in two hoopties in downtown Atlanta.
What would you do?