Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Charles M. Blow, New York Times
Ahmaud Arbery’s Murderers Now Face Life in Prison Nicole Lewis and Jeremy Stahl, Slate
How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case Richard Fausset, New York Times
The Legal Uses of Blackness Zak Cheney-Rice, New York Magazine
Justice prevailed in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers. In America, that’s a shock Moustafa Bayoumi, The Guardian
The System Only Worked Because It Was Pushed Adam Serwer, The Atlantic
The uncomfortable truths hidden inside the Ahmaud Arbery verdict Brakkton Booker, Politico
What History Tells Us About Protest in an Era of Vigilante Violence Dana R. Fisher, Slate
How Vigilantism Furthers Racist Policing Toella Pliakas, Teen Vogue
After Murders ‘Doubled Overnight,’ the NYPD Is Solving Fewer Cases Ali Watkins, New York Times
With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police Kimberly Kindy, Washington Post
88 people with convictions tied to a corrupt Chicago cop are hoping for a mass exoneration Chip Mitchell, WBEZ
Dontae Sharp was exonerated after 24 years in prison. That was not the end of his ordeal Ed Pilkington, The Guardian
Kevin Strickland Comes Home After 43 Years Behind Bars for a Crime He Didn’t Commit Jordan Smith, The Intercept
What Does the Recent Set of Exonerations Tell Us About the Criminal Justice System? Austin Sarat and Rose Mroczka, Slate
‘Black and Missing’ attempts a much-needed reform of true-crime storytelling. It mostly succeeds. Inkoo Kang, Washington Post
Believe Her Turns All the Troubling True Crime Tropes Upside Down Gabrielle Bruney, Jezebel