When the lawyers fighting Ahmaud Arbery’s case couldn’t find transportation to make it to a court hearing in Georgia on Thursday, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter lent his private jet to give the attorneys a lift.
Blerim Elmazi and S. Lee Merritt — the lawyers representing Arbery, who was fatally shot while jogging in February — said on Instagram that they “started losing hope” that they would be able to attend a scheduled hearing in Brunswick.
“At 1 am we started losing hope till we got a call from Jay Z’s people at Roc Nation who chartered a flight for us to attend this hearing with the family of Ahmaud Arbery,” Elmazi wrote in an Instagram post.
As a result of the courtesy, the two lawyers made it to the hearing on time and were able to stand with Arbery’s family.
Earlier this week, Carter and Roc Nation’s philanthropic arm, Team ROC, partnered with activists, attorneys, and the families who lost someone to police violence to dedicate a full-page ad in several newspapers in honor of George Floyd.
