- The Justice Department is considering

possible federal hate crime charges

in the shooting death ofan unarmed black jogger.

Video shows how a Georgiafather and son chased down

and shot Amman Arbery as heran through their neighborhood.

Now they're charged with murder.

CBN National Security CorrespondentEric Philips has more.

- Ahmad Arbury's autopsy report reveals

he was shot three times:

twice in the chest, once in the wrist.

It also indicates he didn't have any drugs

or alcohol in his system at the time.

Now, Georgia does nothave a hate crime statute,

but that does not mean this could not fall

under federal guidelines.

The Department of Justicewill also be looking

into how local authoritieshandled this case

from the beginning.

Mainly, why arrests justtook place last week,

even though the shootinghappened back in February.

This video released tothe public last Tuesday

thrust the shooting deathof 25-year old Amman Arbery

into the national consciousness

and jump-started thelegal system to action.

Within hours of the video's release,

which was more than twomonths after the shooting,

the Georgia Bureau ofInvestigations was put on the case.

A day and a half later,

investigators arrested64-year old Gregory McMichael

and his 34-year old son, Travis,

charging them with aggravatedassault and murder.

- I can tell you thatif we didn't believe it,

we wouldn't have arrested 'em.

If we believe it, then we'regonna put the bracelets on 'em,

and that's exactly what we did.

- [Eric] Investigatorssay the father and son

thought Arbery lookedlike a burglary suspect

recently seen on surveillance.

This image shows Arbery looking at a home

under construction in the neighborhood.

Then there was a 9-1-1 call.

- [Operator] And you said

someone's breaking into it right now?

- [Caller] No, it's all open;it's under construction.

And he's runnin' right now,there he goes right now.

- [Operator] Okay, what is he doing?

- [Caller] He's runnin' down the street.

- [Eric] Arbury's mother says

her son often jogged for exercise.

- I'm very, very sorry for your loss.

I don't know what else to say.

- [Eric] William Bryan shotthe infamous cell phone video.

- I am not feeling safe at all.

I haven't felt safe in atleast three to five days now.

- [Eric] Protests haveerupted across the country

calling for justice.

Justin Giboney heads the And Campaign,

a Christian organization thatfocuses on social justice.

- You saw video has shaken the nation,

as it should have.

And I truly believe that Christians

should be on the front lines

when it comes to makingsure that justice is served.

Because this is one instance,

but this is kind of symptomatic

of something bigger that's in our society.

- [Eric] Support for Arbury's family

has come in many forms,

including the hashtag #IRunWithMaud.

Christian music artist Tauren Wells posted

about the case on social media,

and says he was criticized

and lost some followers because of it.

- If that's the price I have to pay

for speaking up for someonewho died so that they can,

their family can receive somesense of justice, farewell.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.

I pray a Numbers 6 blessing on your life.

- The elder McMichael, aformer law enforcement officer,

says he and his son tried to stop Arbery

because of several recentbreak-ins in the neighborhood.

However, local authorities say

they only investigated one recent break-in

involving an unlocked vehicle,

and that happened to monthbefore this incident.

Many continue to cry for justice,

some jogging 2.23 milesto reflect February 23rd,

the day Arbery was killed.

Eric Phillips, CBN News.

- And Gordon, this case stillstoking a lot of raw emotions

and gaining national attention.

- Well, it should gain national attention.

What we're dealing withis they went out hunting.

You look at this, andyou look at the video,

you look at the circumstances here,

they went hunting.

And you can talk all youwant about citizen's arrest,

and, you know, he was in aconstruction site looking around.

Well, who hasn't tried tolook at a construction site?

He didn't take anything

He wasn't a burglar, he was a jogger.

And to try to say, well, we're justified

because we're trying tomake a citizen's arrest.

No, you're not.

There're not a rash of burglaries

in your town, in your neighborhood.

The police have no record of that.

So what in the world are you doing

and why are you going outwith shotgun and a handgun

in order to stop a jogger?

It just doesn't make any sense.

And there should be outrage over this,

and there should be justice at the end,

but we all have to start looking at

why do we live in a nation

where you have this kind of environment

where a young African American male

can't go jogging through a neighborhood?

Why do we have that kind of culture?

What is it in us that is leadingto this kind of behavior?

There's no excuse for vigilante justice.

There's no excuse for what happened.