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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

Georgia officials ‘blatantly violated’ rights in Cop City case, say protesters

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Police in Conyers, Georgia, on 29 September 2024. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Georgia prosecutors and police have repeatedly stretched the law or come under harsh criticism for their handling of a criminal conspiracy case involving protesters against a police-training center colloquially known as “Cop City”, activists and experts say.

The case has been pushed so recklessly that one of the subjects of the prosecution told the Guardian that their constitutional rights were being “blatantly violated”, after police took thousands of his personal papers in a Swat-style raid last year.

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