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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - US

The 'Cop City' protests, explained

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

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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 Independent UK

‘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 Guardian - US

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 Independent UK

‘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

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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

The Independent UK

‘Cop City’ shooting: Damning Atlanta police video suggests officer was injured by friendly fire

Officials claim that protester did not follow commands from officers as they cleared site of planned training centre

The Independent UK

‘Cop City’ opposition spreads beyond Georgia forest defenders

Law enforcement training center has drawn attention and concern from a broad range of local and national US voices who worry about its impact

The Guardian - US

Georgia officials condemned for labeling ‘Cop City’ protests domestic terrorism

Lawyers for family of climate activist killed by police say charges send warning: ‘If you stand in our way, we will take you out of our way’

The Guardian - US

"Cop City" activists dubbed "terrorists"

Georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing

Salon

Protesters: 'Cop City' activist's killing doesn't make sense

Self-proclaimed “forest defenders” in Atlanta are calling for a more thorough investigation into the death of a protester who was killed by authorities after officials said the activist shot a trooper

The Independent UK

Georgia is seeking to define ‘Cop City’ protests as terrorism, experts say

Actions by police match rhetoric from state politicians seeking to define a largely peaceful protest movement as terrorism

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‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’

Killing of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who opposed training facility, is ‘unprecedented’ in history of environmental activism, experts say

The Independent UK

A protester was shot dead while opposing a $90m Atlanta ‘Cop City’ training centre. What went wrong?

Police haven’t released body camera footage of slaying, writes Josh Marcus

The Independent UK

Man killed, trooper shot while ‘Cop City’ protesters cleared

Authorities say they killed a man who shot and injured a Georgia state trooper as law enforcement officers tried to clear protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center just outside Atlanta

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