My title is Travis McMichael. I’ve been in jail in solitary protecting custody since my arrest on Might 7, 2020 for the self-defense taking pictures of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. Just like the January 6 defendants, I used to be a sufferer of the “Woke Justice” system below Joe Biden.
For the primary 27 months, I used to be confined in “the outlet” on 23-hour lockdown on the Glynn County jail, with just one hour per day trip of my cell for a bathe, train, and to make use of the telephone. I used to be lastly transferred to Hays State Jail in Trion, Georgia in January 2023.
Since my arrival at Hays State Jail, I’ve been in protecting custody on everlasting lockdown in a ten’ x 8′ cell because of the fixed threats on my life. The one exceptions are being escorted to the bathe throughout from my cell on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Except a court docket listening to this previous October, I’ve not seen the solar in 5 years. I used to be knowledgeable lately by the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections that I’ll by no means be allowed to go away my cell throughout my imprisonment, which is life with out parole plus 20 years.
I’ve an occasional go to from my mom, and really restricted contact with workers and officers. The one interplay I’ve with prisoners is with the Trustees, former killers who’ve been vetted and are trusted to work the place I’m housed.
Regardless of my circumstances, I’m being handled professionally and pretty by the workers and trustees that I work together with by means of my cell door, and I’m by no means harassed. My days encompass studying, finding out the Bible, responding to letters, and sketching.
I do know that my Lord and Savior sees all and is aware of what’s in our hearts, and that retains me in peace and in joyful spirits.
I used to be born in Brunswick, Georgia and raised in a loving, joyful family together with my youthful sister. We had a traditional middle-class upbringing. My father was in regulation enforcement earlier than retiring in 2019. My mom was and nonetheless is a registered nurse.
Being raised in a house the place group service and serving to others was the norm, I discovered myself desirous to do the identical. I labored as a lifeguard throughout the summers on the seashore and as a driving teacher till becoming a member of the Coast Guard at age 21.
I served as a Boarding Officer in maritime regulation enforcement operations and as a crewman on search and rescue operations and patrols for 9 years. I left with an Honorable Discharge to assist increase my new child son and to start out a fishing enterprise.
February 23, 2020 was the worst day of my life. After the taking pictures incident, I used to be interviewed on the police station by investigators and instantly launched as a result of my actions had been deemed to be justified in self-defense.
Months later, the “woke justice” system got here after me, prepared to misconstrue and manipulate what had truly occurred with the intention to profit a political narrative.
As a result of my enchantment is pending, I finest not clarify what occurred that day, however please learn all of the details as lately lined by Joel Gilbert in The Gateway Pundit, and likewise learn extra at my household web site right here: WWW.MCMICHAELTRIAL.COM.
The times and weeks following the taking pictures had been powerful. I started having nightmares and flashbacks. I spoke with a counselor on find out how to course of the trauma in a wholesome method, and I attempted to hold on like the whole lot was regular for the sake of my 3-year-old son and household.
After a month had handed, I started to see an uptick of holiday makers on my enterprise web page on Fb for my constitution service and new followers on my enterprise Instagram account.
My LinkedIn web page started sending notifications of views from folks described as attorneys and social justice coordinators. Inside 48 hours, I used to be getting tagged in Instagram posts from Lawyer Lee Merritt, Shaun King with Black Lives Matter, a bunch known as “The Justice League,” and the “Huey P. Lewis Gun Membership.”
All of the posts had been falsely claiming that I had shot a person as a result of he was black and jogging in my neighborhood. I didn’t assume a lot of the posts as a result of that narrative was so ridiculous, and the details overwhelmingly proved in any other case. I didn’t but perceive how highly effective the woke mob was.
Later that night, The New York Times published an article with the brand new narrative. They claimed there was a “cover-up” and that Ahmaud Arbery was doing nothing however having fun with a jog.
All of the sudden, my enterprise accounts had been flooded with detrimental opinions and threats, my private Instagram account was bombarded with detrimental and vile messages, and my electronic mail account was flooded with subscriptions and spam.
It was instantaneous and appeared deliberate. Looking my front room window, vehicles had been circling by my home in any respect hours. My associates and kin began getting doxed and harassed as nicely.
Earlier shoppers who had positioned optimistic opinions on my enterprise pages had been threatened and harassed relentlessly.
At first, I wasn’t involved in regards to the on-line harassment, but it surely turned extra organized by the day because the false narrative grew and the media picked it up.
Quickly, folks had been showing in entrance of my home with indicators. Teams like BLM, the New Black Panthers, and civil rights attorneys together with Lee Merritt and Ben Crump had been calling for protests in my neighborhood, and telling mobs to come back to my home and make a residents arrest of me and my father. Issues had been starting to get uncontrolled and harmful.
It had now been 74 days after the tragedy and no new proof had emerged to vary the details.
Regardless of this, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) took over the case below the course of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp.
My father and I had been arrested at our house inside 36 hours. Throughout our bond listening to, those that testified on our behalf had their photos taken by Lee Merritt whereas they testified.
The pictures had been printed by Shaun King of BLM with their addresses and work information in an try and intimidate others to not communicate out on our behalf.
Like many others throughout the Biden presidency, I consider myself, my father, and likewise my neighbor Roddy Bryan, had been arrested and in the end convicted due to a political narrative, referred to as “woke justice,” and never primarily based on the details which simply proved it was a lower and dry case of self-defense.
I’m presently interesting my conviction.
For extra info on my case, please go to WWW.MCMICHAELTRIAL.COM. There’s a hyperlink to my GiveSendGo account if you need to help us in authorized funding.
Travis James McMichael (born January 18, 1986) is a former U.S. Coast Guard member from Brunswick, Georgia, who got here to nationwide public consideration after he and his father, Gregory McMichael, adopted 25‑yr‑outdated Ahmaud Arbery who attacked Travis and tried to take his shotgun from him. Arbery was shot within the battle over the weapon. In November 2021, McMichael and his father had been convicted of malice homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment with out parole.
