Justice for Ahmaud
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(upbeat music) - I think about it a lot when I go out and run. It's a very strong connection when I run now to a mod I'll be. A mod and I were best friends. - The way a mod died, it just, it hurts my soul. He was jogging through a neighborhood, modern his own business. Three white men decided to get in their trucks and pursue a mod. - They became judge, jury, and executioner. - He didn't deserve anything that came so on February 23rd, 2020. - It's very painful. A mod was my baby and a mod's gone. - He was hunted down like an animal. - He was killed because of hate. - This was a lynching. - Modern day lynching and it looked like something that happened in the 1920s. It's 2020. - I miss the little kisses on the cheek. My mom was the kid that would just come in the house and just give me a hug. - He was more than just a boyfriend. He was a friend. - Very shy and quiet, but once you got mod to kind of open up, oh man, it's just all kind of love and goodness in there. - His unofficial crime was jogging while black. - No one has been arrested or charged in the death of 25-year-old Amad Arbery. - The local authorities, the police department, they had no intentions of making arrests and they didn't make an arrest. - What were they doing? - Telling lies, hoping I'd go away. - Her pursuit for the truth is heroic. - She was actively involved in investigating what happened to her son. - My son was not committing a crime. - I had to keep pushing to get answers. - She is relentless. - I would not go away. - She wasn't gonna be turned back by anybody. - Video has surfaced of an African-American man being chased down and killed. - This murder and broad daylight was streamed into people's homes all across the country. - Justice for Amad!
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A mother fights for the truth behind her son’s killing – captured on video. Ahmaud Arbery was jogging when he was chased and shot. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca reports.