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Ahmaud Arbery suspect denied bail as judge hears his phone contained numerous 'racist messages'

One of the white men charged with murder in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery while he was running in a neighborhood near Georgia's coast struck the Black man with his vehicle and had messages on his phone that were "replete" with racist remarks, a prosecutor said in court on Friday. Cobb County prosecutor Jesse Evans cited the evidence to urge a judge to deny bond to defendant William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. Evans also said Bryan and the two other defendants in the case communicated with each other after Arbery's death, appearing to be "circling the wagons," and that Bryan was facing a separate state criminal investigation into possible sex crimes. Judge Timothy Walmsley later denied bond for Bryan, citing the risk he may flee given the life sentence he faces if convicted in the Arbery case and the other investigation. Bryan's lawyer, Kevin Gough, had argued that prosecutors had no case against Bryan and that he did not pose a flight risk or other danger. A grand jury has indicted Bryan and two other white men, Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, on charges including malice and felony murder in Arbery's Feb. 23 shooting death.

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