Family Says Son Was Wrongly Charged For Shooting At “ Bellegirent Racists”

Source: Courtesy of Mawuli Davis / Mawuli Davis

Wilson has been held in jail for the past three weeks and is due in court Tuesday, according to records obtained by BOSSIP.

Johnson said police allowed the Hutchenson family to hold a press conference at the police barracks begging for information about the young woman’s death even though cops already knew they planned to charge Wilson, inflaming racial tensions in the community and arousing unfounded suspicions that the couple were members of “Antifa.”

The people in the truck have not been charged, said Wilson’s other attorney Mawuli Davis, despite his client being the victim of aggravated assault.

“We’re very clear that this should not have been handled in the way that it was,” Davis said. “There should be no charges against him, because he did nothing other than what is our Constitutional, legal right to do, and that is to defend his life and the life of another.”

The Rev. James “Major” Woodall, president of the state NAACP, said that Wilson’s case – like Ahmaud Arbery’s death in February – illustrated a troubling uptick in “public lynchings” of black people in southeast Georgia. He cited problems like a lack of diversity in the region’s prosecutorial staff, a lack of investigative transparency from law enforcement and blacks being overrepresented in police use of force cases as long-standing impediments to equal justice.

“Instead of being given the due process that is afforded to every citizen of this country, he was immediately criminalized and called a murderer – when in fact he was the one defending himself and his girlfriend’s life,” the Rev. Woodhall said, adding, “If black people can’t stand their ground as well, then nobody should be able to.”

Reps from the Ogeechee District Attorney’s Office and the Bulloch County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office could not be reached for comment Monday.