Dead Until Proven Innocent

If you have stopped watching the news because of the essential Groundhog Day effect that it has been having on everyone, you may not be aware of the case of Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud was shot and killed on February twenty-third of this year. It was just last week that his "alleged" killers were taken into custody. The reason for the quotation marks is the existence of a video of the shooting taking place. Mister Arberry can be seen jogging down a suburban street where he is stopped by two men in a pickup truck, one of whom has a shotgun. Shots are fired. Ahmaud collapses. The two men in the pickup, a father and son who happen to be white, confronted and killed this young man who happened to be black. The father and son insist that they were rounding up what they believed to be a burglary suspect. The fact that the video, which was taken by an associate of the father and son, doesn't look anything like that makes me wonder why it took two and a half months to round up the "alleged" assailants.
Suddenly I was thrown back to one of the worst movies ever made, Plan Nine From Outer Space. This film includes some of the worst dialogue ever committed to celluloid, including this one: "One thing's sure: Inspector Clay is dead - murdered - and somebody's responsible!" Inspector Clouseau or Lieutenant Frank Drebin of Police Squad could have cracked this case in the two minutes it takes to watch the video and still had time to fall squarely on their faces. Apparently the law enforcement types in Glynn County, Georgia felt compelled to skip directly to the falling on their collective faces portion of the drill. 
And guess what? There was no "alleged" string of burglaries in the two weeks leading up to Ahmaud's murder. 
Oops. Did I just call this murder? Without throwing in the "alleged" with our without quotation marks? I have already mentioned the somewhat coincidental nature of the races involved in this killing, Just happens that two white guys in a pickup truck assaulted and murdered an African American man with a shotgun. Ahmaud's crime would be running while not white. Which, in most states, is not illegal. Most counties in Georgia, for that matter, would not have found this defensible. 
So, you say social distancing is still a problem in some areas?
Sorry. Hard to keep my distance from this one.