Civil rights advocates and family members say they’re alarmed by the decision this month of Georgia officials not publicly to release evidence related to the death of activist Manuel Paez Terán, who was shot by a group of state police officers in January while protesting a controversial proposed $90m Atlanta-area police training centre dubbed ‘Cop City’ by critics.
On 6 October, the special prosecutor investigating the incident dubbed officers’ actions “objectively reasonable” and announced no charges would be filed against the six officers involved in the shooting.
