Before Ahmaud Arbery became an icon, he was a football teammate and a friend

Just weeks after the nation discovered that Arbery, aged 25, became yet another statistic on the chart of Black men killed by police, or those acting as police officers. One story mentions Arbery playing ball. I found a few game stories in the Brunswick News about Brunswick Pirates 2011, the final season of Sweeting and Arbery. One person led me to Sweeting because it included a picture of Sweeting running with a football, “and Ahmaud was blocking me,” Sweeting told me, finishing his thoughts.