Georgia’s Attorney General Chris Carr requested Sunday the U.S. Department of Justice conduct an investigation into the handling of Ahmaud Arbery’s case. Arbery, a Black man, was shot and killed in February by two white men while he was out jogging. The killers, father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, were arrested and charged with murder Thursday, two days after video of the shooting was released. They said they hunted Arbery down because he looked like a burglary suspect.

Rights groups and some Georgia lawmakers are calling for the urgent passage of a hate crime bill. Georgia is one of four states that do not have hate crime laws. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms called the killing a lynching. This is Mayor Bottoms speaking on CNN Sunday.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms: “With the rhetoric that we hear coming out of the White House in so many ways, I think that many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way that we otherwise would not see in 2020.”

Protests took place in Glynn County, Georgia, and around the country Friday, on what would have been Ahmaud Arbery’s 26th birthday.