Bodycam footage from 2017 shows Ahmaud Arbery was approached by two Glynn County Police officers while relaxing in a Brunswick, Georgia, park.
Arbery was at Townsend Park in the early morning hours of Nov. 7, 2017, listening to music in his car when Officer Michael Kanago drove up and got out of the car to approach the young Black man, who responded by immediately exiting his Toyota.
“Mr. Ahmaud Arbery immediately exited the vehicle,” Kanago wrote in a police report.
Officer David Haney arrived a few minutes later and Kanago did not inform him Arbery was unarmed but told him he saw a plastic baggy in Arbery’s car.
Even though Kanago knew Arbery was unarmed before the other officer arrived, he wrote Haney tried to use the stun gun “to protect himself and I from the possibility of death or seriously bodily harm.”
