Aaron Wiggins was second-guessing a routine activity. The Maryland men’s basketball junior guard was back in Greensboro, North Carolina, in early June after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2019-20 college basketball season and sent him and his teammates home.
While preparing for an early-morning jog in a majority-white neighborhood, the harrowing images from recent weeks and months — viral footage of Black Americans such as George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery being killed — were still fresh in his mind.
Arbery was followed by three white men and gunned down in a South Georgia neighborhood in February 2020.