Police video from 2017 shows Georgia cops try and FAIL to taser Ahmaud Arbery while his hands are up during a stop and search on his day off, as family lawyer claims it shows 'harassment' (8 Pics)

New police bodycam footage shows officers in Georgia trying to use a taser on Ahmaud Arbery while his hands were up and he was unarmed in 2017. 

Lawyers for Arbery's family said the video suggests that the 25-year-old underwent harassment from Glynn County authorities. 

Three years before Arbery, 25, was shot dead by a white former cop and his son while jogging in February, he had a tense encounter with police officers in Glynn County, Georgia.   

In November 2017, Officer Micheal Kanago reportedly approached Arbery after he suspected him of using marijuana and questioned why he was sitting alone in his car.

Footage obtained by The Guardian shows Kanago questioning Arbery, who explained that he was relaxing inside his vehicle and rapping over instrumental beats. 

An officer tried to use a taser on Ahmaud Arbery (pictured) during an interaction in 2017 but the taser did not work

Arbery adds that it's his day off from working at Blue Beacon Truck Wash.  

'You want to know why I'm f****** with you?' Kanago asks, before instructing Arbery to remove his hands from his pocket.

Kanago later claimed to have felt threatened by Arbery and later wrote that 'veins were popping from [Arbery’s] chest, which made me feel that he was becoming enraged and may turn physically violent towards me.'

At the time, Kanago requested help from an additional officer.   

'You’re bothering me for nothing,' Arbery says to Kanago in bodycam footage. 

Officer David Haney (right) tased Arbery (left) in November 2017, as revealed by police bodycam footage 

Officers suspected Arbery (pictured) if using marijuana and other criminal activity while he relaxed inside in vehicle on his day off

Arbery continues to question the officer, who soon admits that the area is well known for drug use and criminal activity.

'Criminal activity? I’m in a f****** park. I work,' Arbery says. 

David Haney, the second officer at the scene, arrives minutes later and yells at Arbery to remove his hands from his pockets, which he did.

That's when Haney tries to use a taser on Arbery. However the taser did not work. 

'I get one day off a week…I’m up early in the morning trying to chill,' Arbery told the officers.

'I’m just so aggravated because I work hard, six days a week.' 

Arbery is eventually released by the officers, but barred from driving his car because his license is expired. 

Arbery (pictured) told Officer Kanago that he was rapping inside his car as a way to relax on his day off 

Officers eventually let Arbey go, but he was not allowed to drive his car because of a suspended license.

Lawyers with Arbery's family described the incident as 'a situation where Ahmaud was harassed by Glynn county police officers.'

They told The Guardian that there was 'no justifiable reason' for Arbery to be confronted with a taser. 

Additionally, they suggested that the video is proof that Glynn County police have unfairly targeted Arbery in the past. 

'This appears to be just a glimpse into the kind of scrutiny Ahmaud Arbery faced not only by this police department, but ultimately regular citizens like the McMichaels and their posse, pretending to be police officers,' a statement read.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Arbery was placed on probation in 2013 for having a gun while at a high school basket ball game. 

He was later charged with shoplifting and violating his probation in 2018. Arbery's family lawyer's said those charges are unrelated to his death.  

In February, Arbery was killed by Travis McMichael, 34, and his 64-year-old father, Greg McMichael.  

Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, have been jailed on murder charges since May 7

Gregory and Travis have been jailed on murder charges since May 7.

The elder McMichael, a former police officer, told police he suspected Arbery was responsible for recent break-ins in the neighborhood.

He also said Arbery attacked his son before he was shot.

Arbery's mother has said she believes her son was merely out jogging

Arbery's mother has said she believes her son was merely out jogging.

Defense lawyers for Gregory McMichael said last Friday that they have examined evidence that 'tells a very different story' about Arbery and the two men charged with killing him. Attorney Laura Hogue told reporters: 'There is more than one video of the incident.'

She did not give any specifics. A roughly 40-second cellphone video of the shooting was leaked online last week, a day before the McMichaels were charged the felony murder and aggravated assault.

The video fueled a national outcry not just over the killing but also that more than two months passed before arrests were made.

Attorney Franklin Hogue, hired to defend Gregory McMichael along with his law partner wife, said more details would be revealed at a preliminary court hearing that he plans to request soon.

'The truth will reveal this is not just another act of violent racism,' Franklin Hogue told a news conference outside the couple's Macon office. 'Greg McMichael did not commit murder. Greg McMichael is not a party to the crime of murder. 

Video footage which showed Gregory and Travis embroiled in a scuffle with Arbery before they fatally shot him sparked national outrage after it was published on social media earlier this month

Attorneys for Arbery's parents have said security camera video from the same home construction site Feb. 23 shows Arbery on the property right before the shooting. They also say the footage shows Arbery committing no crimes.

'There were frequently people on the construction site both day and night,' attorneys for Arbery's parents said in a statement Friday. 'Ahmaud Arbery seems to be the only one who was presumed to be a criminal and ultimately the only one murdered based on that assumption.'

Travis called 911 to report a possible trespasser on English's property the night of Feb. 11, less than two weeks before Arbery was shot. He described a 'black male, red shirt and white shorts.'

'When I turned around and saw him and backed up, he reached into his pocket and ran into the house,' Travis told the 911 operator.

 'So I don´t know if he´s armed or not. But he looked like, he was acting like he was.'