The Rev. Al Sharpton, second from right, is flanked by Ahmaud Arbery’s parents, Wanda Cooper-Jones, left, and Marcus Arbery, right, as he speaks Nov. 18 to roughly 750 pastors and supporters of the late Mr. Arbery outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., during a Wall of Prayer event. A defense attorney for one of the three white men charged with Mr. Arbery’s murder objected to the presence of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Sharpton and other Black pastors in the courtroom and asked the judge to keep them out. The judge rejected the request as “reprehensible.” At far left is Martin Luther King III, son of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hundreds of pastors both rallied and prayed last week outside the trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. They gathered in response to a defense lawyer’s bid to keep Black ministers out of the courtroom.
