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Families struggle with how to hold 2nd pandemic Thanksgiving

(AP) — Back in the for her, her husband and two have a sense of community
spring, Pauline Criel and grown boys. back.
her cousins talked about
reuniting for Thanksgiv- “I’m going to wear my She said about seven or eight
ing at her home near De- stretchy pants and eat too family members would be
troit after many painful much — and no one’s going gathering for the holiday
months of seclusion be- to care,” she said. and that the group had not
cause of the COVID-19 discussed one another’s vac-
pandemic. Her story reflects the cination status beforehand,
Thanksgiving dilemma that in part because they “kind of
But the virus had a different families across America are know” already who got the
plan. Michigan is now the facing as the gatherings be- shots and who has had the vi-
nation’s hot spot. Hospitals come burdened with the rus already.
there are teeming with pa- same political and coronavi-
tients, and schools are scal- rus debates consuming other “Getting together is worth
ing back in-person learning. arenas. it. And getting together and
A resurgent virus has pushed ent approach by prioritizing sharing meals, and shar-
new infections in the U.S. As they gather for turkey, “I know that it might be family time over COVID-19 ing life,” Ragusin said while
to 95,000 daily, hospitals in stuffing, mashed potatoes overkill that we’re not shar- concerns even as rising case picking up her mother at the
Minnesota, Colorado and and pie, they are confronted ing Thanksgiving here with counts and overwhelmed airport in Denver. “We’re just
Arizona are also under pres- with a list of questions: Can my cousins, but better be safe hospitals triggered new mask not made to live in isolation.”
sure, and health officials are they once again hold big get- than sorry, right?” said Criel, mandates in the Denver area
pleading with unvaccinated togethers? Can they gather at a 58-year-old data adminis- this week. Ragusin, whose The desire to bring family
people not to travel. all? Should they invite un- trator for a finance company. husband contracted the virus and friends back together for
vaccinated family members? and spent four days in the in- Thanksgiving was evident
Criel’s big family feast was Should they demand a nega- Jocelyn Ragusin, an ac- tensive care unit in October Wednesday in San Francisco,
put on hold. She is roasting a tive test before a guest is al- countant from Littleton, 2020, said she is willing to ac- where the line at one grocery
turkey and whipping togeth- lowed at the dinner table or a Colorado, is taking a differ- cept a certain level of risk to store stretched out the door
er a pistachio fluff salad — an spot on the sofa for an after- and around the corner.
annual tradition — but only noon of football?

Their own words may have doomed men

who killed Ahmaud Arbery

(AP) - The video of Ah- trial from Atlanta. police Sgt. Roderic Nohilly
maud Arbery’s shotgun read in court.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada death was a shocking piece WHAT THEY SAID:
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. of evidence that suddenly The shooter, Travis McMi- Bryan was on his front porch
E ta hibami na awa trankil, brought the Black man’s chael, his dad, Greg McMi- when he saw Arbery run past
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. killing into the national chael and neighbor William with the McMichaels’ truck
Salmo: 23 consciousness. “Roddie” Bryan all spoke ex- close behind. He told police
tensively and candidly with he didn’t recognize any of
A fayece: But the murder convictions Glynn County investigators them, or know what prompt-
of the three white men who just hours after Arbery was ed the chase, but still joined
chased him may have been killed in their Brunswick, in after calling out: “Y’all got
secured as much by their Georgia, neighborhood in him?”
own words to investigators February 2020.
the day of the shooting. In an interview with the
They told police they weren’t Georgia Bureau of Investiga-
Greg McMichael, who was sure exactly what Arbery had tion, Bryan said he wanted
in the bed of a pickup truck done wrong, which would to take a photo of Arbery to
when his son killed Arbery, later be a big blow to their show police, but couldn’t
told police the Black man defense that they were mak- point to any crimes Arbery
“was trapped like a rat” and ing a citizen’s arrest. had committed.
he told Arbery: “Stop, or I’ll
blow your f---ing head off!” The citizen’s arrest law, “I figured he had done some-
largely repealed by lawmak- thing wrong,” Bryan said. “I
Statements like that allowed ers after Arbery’s death, re- didn’t know for sure.”
prosecutors to give context quired a person to see or
to the short video that didn’t have immediate knowledge The statements allowed
show the entire shooting and of a crime being committed prosecutor Linda Dunikoski
had little of the five minutes or have reasonable suspi- to methodically pick apart
that the men chased Arbery. cion that someone is fleeing the defense’s arguments.
a felony in order to justify a
“It’s those statements that citizen’s arrest. “Nobody was talking about
screwed the defense more a citizen’s arrest. And I don’t
than the video. If they had “I don’t think the guy has ac- mean using the magic words
never talked to police and tually stolen anything out of ‘citizen’s arrest.’ I mean no
they said we saw him taking there, or if he did it was early one’s saying, ‘We saw the guy
something from the property in the process. But he keeps commit a burglary and we
Ricardo Soriano and running — there’s an going back over and over were going to hold on to him
OK shot the jury might have again to this damn house,” so we could turn him over to
*07-11-1951 - †24-11-2021 acquitted them,” said appel- Greg McMichael said, ac- police because he committed
late attorney Andrew Fleis- cording to a transcript of the this crime,’” Atlanta defense
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues chman, who followed the interview that Glynn County attorney Page Pate said.