Georgia man, son charged with murder in shooting of unarmed black man

A graphic video of the

murder

of Ahmad Our Burry, 25, in Georgia sparked outrage after it was widely circulated on social media earlier this week, and on Thursday, a white former law enforcement officer and his son were arrested and accused of

murder

in the city of Brunswick, the

shooting

death took place months earlier, in February, and the video sparked a furor among civil rights activists in the United States. who saw the incident as the latest case of white perpetrators killing a

black

man and going unpunished. On Wednesday, protesters took to the streets in Brunswick and a march was also held in honor of our burial in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia.

Gregory McMichael, 64, and his 34-year-old son, Travis, have been arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and were also

charged

with aggravated assault. The two men have not been convicted and it was not immediately clear Thursday whether they had hired attorneys.