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‘Cop City’ protest lawyers challenge use of domestic terrorism statute

Attorneys for protester argue law is unconstitutional restraint on free speech as legal defense fund organizers also arrested

The Guardian - US

Georgia Arrests 'Cop City' Bail Fund Organizers for Fraud, Money Laundering

As with other cases in recent months, Georgia law enforcement has used specious classifications to charge nonviolent protesters with domestic terrorism.

Reason

Atlanta politicians face pressure to vote against giving $31m to ‘Cop City’

City council to vote on giving taxpayer money to controversial project as state characterizes opposition as work of ‘terrorists’

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Marjorie Taylor Green falsely claims slain Georgia activist killed police officer at Cop City protest

No police officer was killed in incident

The Independent UK

Latest arrests of ‘Cop City’ protesters ‘feel like overreach’, experts say

Three activists protesting the planned facility were charged under a little-known Georgia law, raising first amendment concerns

The Guardian - US

First Thing: Sudanese flee homeland as airstrikes threaten ceasefire

Long lines are forming at the borders as people fleeing fighting around the capital face daylong waits and demands for visas in order to cross to safety

The Guardian - UK

Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement

Opponents say move is yet another example of crackdown by officials seeking to disrupt protests against $90m training center

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Autopsy strengthens case that ‘Cop City’ activist didn’t fire first before being gunned down by police

Police claim activist fired first

The Independent UK

‘Cop city’ backers and opponents battle for public opinion over $90m project

Poll shows Atlanta divided on racial lines over planned police and fire department training center

The Guardian - US

Georgia prosecutors accused of waging ‘judicial pogrom’ against ‘Cop City’ activists

Protesters face domestic terrorism charges and have been denied bail as experts decry lack of evidence proffered by state

The Guardian - US

Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid shot pepperball gun into activist’s tent first

Manuel Paez Terán’s family say incident reports reveal that Georgia officials ‘planned and led the operation’ that resulted in the activist’s death

The Guardian - US

Investment fund links to Atlanta police and ‘Cop City’ project revealed

Roark Capital and Silver Lake Management have a web of connections to the Atlanta police foundation, Cop City and surveillance in the city

The Guardian - US

Inside the 'Stop Cop City' forest camp, the latest epicenter of activism over policing

ATLANTA — Carrying backpacks and bedrolls, a group arrived at a forest just outside Atlanta one balmy March afternoon. At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.

Los Angeles Times

First Thing: Autopsy of ‘Cop City’ activist shot by police still incomplete

Manuel Paez Terán’s family say other state agencies have also failed to release information about activist’s death. Plus, how the first Twitter-fuelled bank run played out

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Tents slashed and supplies destroyed: ‘Cop City’ activists describe police intimidation

Police swarmed private property over the weekend, detaining activists and confiscating property; one person arrested, for a traffic ticket

The Independent UK

Environmentalist shot protesting $90m Atlanta ‘Cop City’ died with hands up, autopsy finds

Family calling on officials to release evidence from investigation into activist’s death

WEKU

The family of a 'Cop City' protester who was killed releases more autopsy findings

Attorneys for the family of Manuel Paez Terán said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the shooting, has prevented Atlanta police from releasing more evidence to his relatives.

Daily Mirror

Environmental activist was shot 14 times by police during peaceful protest at 'Cop City'

Environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, 26, was shot at the site of a planned Atlanta, US, $90million (£72million) public safety training in Atlanta’s South River Forest on January 18

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Atlanta’s Black community raises voice against ‘Cop City’ police base

Protesters ask ‘Mayor Andre Dickens – is this enough Black folks for you?’ in demonstration against $90m training center

Salon

The 'Cop City' protests, explained

23 people were charged with domestic terrorism — including a legal observer

The Independent UK

How Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ became the focus for green protests – and claims of lethal police brutality

One person has been killed and dozens of other arrested as a coalition of protesters tries to stop the construction of a sprawling new police training centre in a Georgia forest

The Guardian - US

‘This is how I’m going to die’: police swarm activists protesting ‘Cop City’ in ‘week of action’

Hours of chaos as officers descended upon forest, seeking activists protesting $90m police and fire department training center

The Independent UK

How Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ became the focus for green protests – and claims of lethal police brutality

One person has been killed and dozens of other arrested as a coalition of protesters tries to stop the construction of a sprawling new police training centre in a Georgia forest

The Guardian - US

‘Sadness in the whole forest’: family of Cop City activist killed by police seeks answers

Manuel Paez Terán was protesting planned Atlanta police training center when officers repeatedly shot and killed them

The Independent UK

Police video from 'Cop City' operation doesn't show shooting

Newly released Atlanta police body camera video shows officers clearing tents from the site of a planned public safety training center and then reacting after they heard the barrage of gunfire that left an environmental activist dead and a state trooper injured

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