Georgia judge to decide if voters can dissolve police department at centre of Arbery murder case

FILE PHOTO: A woman marches with a group of protesters down to the Kenosha County Courthouse, in Kenosha, Wisconsin August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia Superior Court judge could decide on Friday whether voters have the right to dissolve a county police department accused of mishandling of the killing of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in an incident caught on a cellphone video that went viral.

The video of the Feb. 23 death of Arbery, 25, in the coastal city of Brunswick sparked outrage across the country, with civil rights activists saying it marked yet another example of the attack of an innocent Black man.