ATLANTA — From North Carolina to Seattle, the police shooting of a protester at the site of a planned public safety training center in Atlanta on Wednesday has reverberated across a wide swath of left-wing activist groups.
The reaction to the death of 26-year-old activist Manuel Teran among groups ranging from environmental activists, radical anarchists and Black revolutionaries in cities around the nation demonstrates the “Stop Cop City” movement has become a symbol of a larger fight on the far left.
Michael Logan, a criminal justice professor at Kennesaw State University who studies the far left, said the training center project, planned for a portion of a 300-acre stretch of the South River Forest in DeKalb County, is a unique target for protesters.
