Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael have been denied bond.   The father and son were officially charged with murder and aggravated assault on what would have been Ahmaud Arbery’s 26th birthday. Will hate crime charges be added? Georgia is one of only four states in the country that doesn’t have a hate crime prevention law. But USA Today reports, “Even if a state or territory does not have a hate crimes law, hate crimes can still be reported to the FBI, according to the DOJ. ‘If after the (Arbery) investigation is completed, and it was a hate crime, there’s still the opportunity to bring federal hate crime charges,’ NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a press conference Friday.” Today White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked to weigh in on this.

The Washington Post reports that there could be charges against a third man as well. The director of the Glynn County District Attorney’s Office, Victor Reynolds said: “his bureau’s investigation into the incident would include William Bryan, identified by prosecutors as the man who shot the video that shows Arbery’s killing.”

Meanwhile, tapes of the 911 calls made before and what appears to be during the shooting were released (listen above). In one, an unidentified caller said he saw a black man “at a house under construction” and “running down the street.” But the 911 operator didn’t seem to understand what crime the man was reporting, so she pushed back saying “I just need to know what he was doing wrong.” Those who knew Arbery say he was running down the street because he was out for a jog. The New York Times wrote:

Arbery loved to run. It was how the 25-year-old former high school football standout stayed fit, his friends said, and it was not unusual to see him running around the outskirts of the small coastal Georgia city near where he lived.

Gregory McMichael initially told police they believed Arbery was a suspect in a series of break-ins. But CNN reports no such string of crimes was reported to police in the weeks leading up to the shooting.