No, this isn’t a photo of Brian Kemp and Gregory McMichael

After video footage of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was jogging in February in Brunswick, Ga., drew outrage across the country, two men — Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael — were charged with murder and aggravated assault in the killing.  

But recent Facebook claims purporting to link Gregory McMichael with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp have the wrong guy. 

"This is Gregory McMichael with the governor of Georgia," the post says. "Notice his hat? He is a former police officer and the father of Travis McMichael. Travis McMichael murdered Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, out for a jog. Notice the hat?"

The photo shows Kemp with a thumb up and his other arm around a man wearing a hat supporting President Donald Trump, a Kemp sticker and a T-shirt that says "Allah is not God."

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Gregory McMichael is a former police officer, and he worked as an investigator in the local district attorney’s office. A police report said that after Arbery ran past him on a residential street, he and Travis McMichael grabbed two guns and followed Arbery in a truck, according to a story in the New York Times. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has said that Travis McMichael shot and killed Arbery. 

But the man who appears in the photo with Kemp is James Stachowiak, a man the Council on American-Islamic Relations called "a violent anti-Muslim extremist" when the group posted the image on Facebook in October 2018. 

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At the time of the photo, Kemp, a Republican, was in a close race for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams. A campaign spokesman responded to critics who wanted Kemp to apologize for the photo by saying Kemp "takes hundreds of photos a day while traveling the state. It’s ridiculous to think he should be held responsible for the beliefs of every person who wants to snap a picture with him."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Stachowiak is well-known to law enforcement and civil rights groups. In 2016, for example, Georgia Capitol police put out a notice warning he was planning an unauthorized, anti-Islam rally to shred the Koran, according to the newspaper. 

We rate this Facebook post claiming Stachowiak is Gregory McMichael False.