Arme black men walking through the white neighborhood where AhmaudArbery was murdered pic.twitter.com/9qe1UtKIsP

— Brother tyrone X (@tyrone_brother) May 11, 2020

General Rottweiler, special operations commander of the group, said he wants justice for Arbery.

“You don’t win wars by marching and protesting you win wars by fighting back,” Rottweiler told CBS46. “You have to fight back. That’s the way I was bred and that’s the way the military teaches you. You have to fight back you can’t just sit there when your family gets murdered or people get murdered.”

Gerald Griggs, an attorney and vice president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, said the group has a right to protest and carry firearms.

“When you see a person get shot with a shotgun three times that’s something triggering about that. It evokes a lot of images from the past with us, Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin,” Griggs told CBS46. “Everything that was happening was legal. We have a First Amendment right to protest, we have a Second Amendment right to bear arms, and in the state we have open carry in most places.”

He added that the NAACP encourages nonviolent protests.

“We just call on everyone to remain calm, let the process play out and if you feel the need to protest do it lawfully,” said Griggs.

Behind the Panthers, people held signs with phrases like “No Justice No Peace” and “Run With Maud” alongside pictures of the young man.

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