I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upa2Rk_Y1Z0

I respect her but it's still kinda weird to me. That people have to invoke faith or religion in order to justify treating others with respect. One would think you could just do that without invoking your inner Christ. But I guess you have to to that to get any attention in this Country. A country supposedly built on secularism.

"If you believe your life is in danger, standing around 10 feet from a guy with a gun is a pretty terrible tactical move."

>Arbery's best move would have been to continue running away, he stands no chance against multiple armed men. But he didn't.

"Again, you have to think of this as a self-defense issue from the victim's perspective. These individuals chasing him with guns had no legal right to apprehend him. As such, I believe a reasonable person in this situation would see themselves as being in danger. In such a situation, he has the legal right to engage physically in self-defense."

>I'm not a lawyer but from the sound of the linked letter, https://georgiarecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Barnhill-letter-Brunswick-shooting.pdf , the gunmen might have had a legal right to apprehend...

A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.

https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2006/17/17-4-60.html

I think you misunderstood something there.

She didn't invoke faith to justify treating others with respect, she pointed out that those who do something due to their faith do so generally against the teachings of said faith. As such, she tells them as what they are, hypocrites who want to do something out of their own volition who are just trying to hide it behind their religion.

Oh I got that. You have to invoke faith at that point to show the hypocrisy.

I just wanted to highlight the craziness that you are basically forced to do so in a country that has secularism built into their constitution. Having to invoke God in a political debate, be it for or or against human decency.

It's at this point, I have to wonder if the gunmen made their intentions clear: did they tell Arbery that they intended to do a citizens arrest? Or did they just tell Arbery they intended to kill him? Or something else?...

Have we any additional video of the run-ins between the involved parties?

As a black man being hunted by white men carrying guns and knowing you did nothing wrong, I highly doubt he felt safe that getting in their car was going to lead to a fair situation.  It really do not matter what they said, you would believe he felt it was a life or death situation and getting in their car like a kidnapped victim gave him no chance at survival.  By stopping their car and getting out, it escalated the situation further.  Someone with a shotgun comes to you, you have 2 choices run and expose your back or confront that person and fight for your life.  If they wanted to detain him for the police to arrive, they could have kept following him but they did not.  Instead they were going to force him to come with them which is indicated by them getting in front of him and the person with the shot gun getting out.

If you watch the video of the shooting, you'll notice it was Arbery who did the running up to and fist-swinging.

He was being chased.  The vehicle that the video was being filmed from was also part of that chase.  They had him trapped between them. They've even said they were chasing him down to perform the "citizens arrest".

Source:

He was running away from the car that was filming him. 

And again, "They spotted Arbery running down Buford Road. Travis drove down Burford Road and tried unsuccessfully to cut off Arbery’s escape with the truck, the report said.

A 'citizen's arrest' is not a formal deputization and does not give one the grounds to aim a firearm at an unarmed man.

1). Ah, the old "He was trying to take away my gun before I could shoot him so I had to shoot him so he couldn't take away my gun" defense.

If Gregory McMichael shot Arbery because he 'feared for his safety' then did not Arbery 'fear for his safety' too?  If you fear a man is about to shoot you, would not a logical response be to prevent his ability to shoot you?

2). Again, he was also running away from the other vehicle.  Further, he as running because....get this...he was out jogging. Let's not forget he did try to run away from the but kept getting cut off.  That's directly according to the McMichael's themselves.

3). Ooh, let's rip this one apart bit by bit, shall we?

A). if the offense is committed in his presence.
Which it was not.  They reported that they attempted a citizens arrest because he matched a description of a suspect wanted for residential burglaries. Meaning they didn't witness a crime.

B). or within his immediate knowledge.
See above. Arbery only matched a description of a suspect.  That is not immediate knowledge of the crime and perpetrator.

C). If the offense is a felony...
But here is the thing...there were no burglaries reported in that neighborhood to begin with.  So not only did the McMiahcael's lie about why they pursued Arbery but no felonies that Arbery was alleged to have committed were reported.

D). and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape,
This is in tandem with C.  That means they had to commit a felony and are now trying escape.  Given what we know about C, D cannot apply either.

E). a private person may arrest him...
Arrest doesn't mean execute.  There is no provision in that law that protects you from liability if you kill someone in the act of performing a citizens arrest.

F). upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.
Which they did not have. Further, if Arbery did happen to commit burglaries in that neighborhood and the local home owners did not file any police reports, that gives the suspicion that they intended to carry out justice on their own. And vigilantism is illegal in the state of Georgia.

Correct.  There is another video of him walking through the wood framing of new home under construction. While some can argue this is trespassing (which is not a felony which rules out a proper citizen's arrest), it's not an uncommon action taken by people who are curious.  I used to check out homes under construction when I worked nearby to them. 

Further, Arbery was pursuing a career as an electrician according to his mother and studied in the electrical systems program at South Georgia Technical College a few years ago.  I'm speculating here but a new home job site would easily pique the interests of a potential electrician. 

I still need to see what sort of verbal interaction occurred between the gunmen and Arbery.

Did the gunmen inform Arbery that they were calling the police and ask him to stop for police?