On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, while jogging on Holmes Road just before the intersection with Satilla Drive in the Satilla Shores neighborhood.

Arbery's murder created national outrage and leads us to requesting the abolishment of South Carolina's Citizens Arrest law.

South Carolina's citizen's arrest law gives people the power to arrest someone who has committed a crime. South Carolina takes the law one step further, by allowing lethal force in some cases.

This law has has no place in any moral or just society.

It can only lead to problems especially for black lives.

It can only lead to what we saw in Brunswick Georgia; therefore, it would be irresponsible not to be proactive. 

Beaufort United (Our Peaceful Protest) plan of action is to collect and present 5,000 signatures to our State's Representative Shannon Erickson, so she can move our state forward to peace and justice for all.