23 charged with terrorism in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protest

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ATLANTA (AP) — More than 20 people from around the country faced domestic terrorism charges Monday after dozens in black masks attacked the site of a police training center under construction in a wooded area outside Atlanta where one protester was killed in January.

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-police-training-site-protest-fire-1ba4362c9337e27ecaf44283fc72fc56?

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23 people charged with domestic terrorism after attack on Atlanta police center 'Cop City'

Authorities charged 23 people with domestic terrorism after more than a hundred protesters dressed in black breached a proposed police and fire training center site in Atlanta Sunday, burning vehicles and setting off fireworks toward officers stationed nearby, according to police.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/06/atlanta-police-training-center-protests-detained/11411036002/

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‘Stop Cop City’ activists infuse Jewish rituals into their protest against Atlanta’s planned police training center

(JTA) — As the sun set on Feb. 5, signaling the start of Tu Bishvat, a group of Jews carried shovels into the South River Forest southeast of downtown Atlanta.

https://www.jta.org/2023/03/06/united-states/stop-cop-city-activists-infuse-jewish-rituals-into-their-protest-against-atlantas-planned-police-training-center?

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Autopsy: ‘Cop City’ protester had hands raised when killed

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — An environmental activist who was fatally shot in a confrontation with Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester’s family said Monday as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned.

https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-protest-tortguita-shooting-autopsy-d49cf387b9496d769ca4421f90ff530b?

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Autopsy report reveals "Cop City" activist had 57 gunshot wounds

The protester killed in January by Georgia state troopers at the site of Atlanta's planned public safety training center died from at least 57 gunshot wounds, according to a newly released autopsy report.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/19/cop-city-atlanta-activist-autopsy?

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Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters

On Wednesday morning, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/?

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Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters

Part of a brutal crackdown on dissent against the police training facility, the SWAT raid and charges against the protest bail fund are unprecedented.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/?

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No One Believes in Cop City. So Why Did Atlanta’s City Council Fund It?

The fight could influence whether Georgia stays blue in 2024’s Senate and presidential races.

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/06/cop-city-atlanta-funding-vote/?

DHS Intel Report on Cop City Protesters Cribbed Far-Right Activist Andy Ngo

The intelligence report described the demonstrations as a “violent far-left occupation” — a phrase copied directly from an article by Ngo a day earlier.

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/05/dhs-cop-city-andy-ngo/?

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Georgia police department under investigation for using photo of a Black man for target practice

Villa Rica police posted the photos on their Facebook page, showing participants using an image of a Black man as a target during a firearms safety class.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/georgia-police-department-investigation-using-photo-black-man-target-p-rcna90658?

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Atlanta City Leaders Are Subverting Democracy to Save Cop City

With a referendum against the police facility in the works, Atlanta is making sure it won’t be valid. Activists have other ways to fight.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/18/cop-city-atlanta-referendum/?

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'Stop Cop City' organizers brace for deadline, surpass 70K signatures

A grassroots effort is underway to potentially stop the construction of Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center, dubbed “Cop City” by opponents. 

https://www.wabe.org/stop-cop-city-organizers-brace-for-deadline-to-collect-70k-signatures/?

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Atlanta Officials Unveil Onerous Verification Requirements for Cop City Referendum

The city outlined its plans for signature verification after organizers collected 100,000 signatures for a vote on the police training facility.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/21/atlanta-cop-city-referendum-signatures/?

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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to ‘Stop Cop City’ movement

ATLANTA (AP) — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-protests-rico-charges-3177a63ac1bd31a1594bed6584e9f330?

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Defying RICO Indictment, Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Bulldozer to Stop Cop City

In solidarity with those facing racketeering charges, protesters against the planned police compound chose to stand their ground against state repression.

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/07/cop-city-rico-indictment/?

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Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too

The message is clear: Try to spread opinions cops don’t like through the media, and you might be charged next.

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/11/cop-city-indictments-protest-press-freedom/?

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Cop City Protesters Tried to Plant Trees. Atlanta Police Beat Them for It.

Organizers swore off violence, but the cops used their garden tools as an excuse to attack them anyway.

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/15/cop-city-protest-police-atlanta-tear-gas/?