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Law’s Ayesha Bell Hardaway discussed the hate crime charges in Ahmaud Arbery’s death

Georgia father, son sentenced to life for hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death

USA Today: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, associate professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, weighed in on the sentence of a father and son sentenced to life in prison Monday on federal hate crime charges for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. “It is a rejection of our nation’s ugly history when public lynchings were celebrated with family picnics,” she added.