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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

After jail, house arrest and an ankle monitor, a reprieve for a ‘Cop City’ protester: ‘The process was the punishment’

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Environmental activists hold a rally and march against ‘Cop City’, on 4 March 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

On the phone from his Atlanta house last week, John “Jack” Mazurek said he felt “a few pounds lighter”.

It was no wonder. The 33-year-old Georgia carpenter was in a new reality, after resolving a three-year case involving attempts to charge him with felony arson for allegedly torching police motorcycles as part of a protest movement against a police training center known as Cop City.

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