On Jan 18th, 2023, additional raids took place with more arrests. 26-year-old Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran was murdered by Georgia State Patrol after being shot 57 times while sitting in their tent.

In Tort’s name we continue the struggle to #StopCopCity.

#JusticeForTort

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Mother of Cop City Protester MURDERED By Police Condemns Drama-Obsessed Media #StopCopCity #DefendTheForest #BoycottHomeDepot #AbolishAPD #JusticeForTort

#PoliceBrutality https://youtu.be/tBOXMYk2LN0

BREAKING: Cops ARREST SENIOR CITIZEN Protesting Cop City Funder Home Depot

#BoycottHomeDepot #StopCopCity #AbolishAPD #JusticeForTort

https://youtu.be/q_G6Q3CozVw

🖤❤️THIS IS POWERFUL🖤❤️
The voice over belongs to Tort, almost like they predicted their demise. Warning: If you knew them or passionately follow the cop city fiasco, you will cry hearing them describe exactly what happened to them.
#JusticeforTort #StopCopCity #ACAB

Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder: The Evidence and the Motive

New from @CrimethInc

https://crimethinc.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-police-and-georgia-state-patrol-are-guilty-of-murder-the-evidence-and-the-motive

@defendATLforest #StopCopCity #JusticeForTort #ACAB

May is the #StopCopCity Month of Solidarity. What can you do to help? Cop city will never be built. #justicefortort #acab

"The civil rights attorney said the case to date bore similarities to one in which she defended Phoenix-area Black Lives Matter protesters. In that case, all criminal charges against protesters were dropped – including more than 100 felony rioting charges and attempts to tie defendants to what she called a “fake criminal street gang … that does not and has never existed, except as a boogeyman in the state’s head.”

Fallout in the case includes multiple resignations, demotions and even criminal investigations against prosecutors and police, after falsified evidence and other law enforcement abuses were revealed. “I heard all of the same things” at the bond hearing, she said. What happened in Phoenix, she said, “should serve as a warning as to what might happen in Atlanta."

#StopCopCity #Atlanta #DefendtheAtlantaForest #Tortuguita #JusticeforTort

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/31/georgia-cop-city-activists-prosecutors?CMP=share_btn_tw

to qualify as a “domestic terrorist” in usa u may have the phone# of a non-profit organization that helps arrestees with bail and attorneys &/or carry a home-made shield. also, wearing dark clothing marks u as a “member”

“Experts consulted by the Guardian said they were shocked at the lack of evidence proffered by the state to justify keeping the arrestees in jail – and at DeKalb county superior court judge Gregory A Adams’ denial of bond in all but two of the cases, meaning he considered them likely to flee and avoid future court appearances, a threat to the community, or both.”

#DropTheCharges
#FreeThemAll
#StopCopCity
#WeAreAllForestDefenders
#JusticeForTort

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/31/georgia-cop-city-activists-prosecutors

"What’s indisputable is that police repression has extended into all corners of this movement, amounting to a profoundly undemocratic exertion of state power. From the outset, the voices of the people have been marginalized and subsumed under deference to Atlanta’s police state.

As in the days of brutal repression of the civil rights movement, so too are the levers of state power aligned against the Stop Cop City movement. But there are also reasons for hope. Despite the best efforts of Atlanta authorities to contain the movement, to smear those standing in solidarity as outside agitators, this movement is both intersectional and multilocational.

Beyond the week of action, the battle to stop Cop City continues, in forms ranging from sabotage to legal battles over environmental permitting minutiae. Only time will tell how this movement resolves — whether it succumbs to police repression or whether Cop City will indeed never be built. But it’s been a hell of a fight so far, with the full force of state power brought against the protesters that dare to defy it."

#StopCopCity #Tortuguita #JusticeforTort #Atlanta #AtlantaForest #DefendtheAtlantaForest #Weelaunee #WeelauneeForest #BlackLivesMatter

https://truthout.org/articles/atlantas-stop-cop-city-movement-is-spreading-despite-rampant-state-repression/

Here is a transcript of the section I'm referring to from today's #DemocracyNow broadcast:

"AMY GOODMAN: So, that’s Daniel Paez, the brother of Tortuguita. Jeff Filipovits, if you can talk about what is happening at this protest? Dozens of the forest defenders — and they’re all different groupings of people who are opposed to what, if it’s built, will be the largest police training facility in the country, in the Weelaunee Forest outside Atlanta. Dozens have been charged with domestic terrorism?

JEFF FILIPOVITS: Yes. It’s really a troubling development. What I can speak to specifically is the arrest warrants that were taken out against each of these demonstrators, charging them with domestic terrorism. When an arrest warrant is issued, there has to be a factual basis for it. They officer has to set forth the facts in an affidavit that establish probable cause. And what we see in each of these affidavits is that there is no specific allegation of any one of these individuals engaging in an act of violence, no specific allegation that any one of these individuals conspired to engage in violence. And so we see a rubber stamp of these charges, and as a result, a seemingly automatic denial of bond for all of those arrested.

But what appears to be happening is that people are being swept up with this label regardless of whether they’ve committed any crime beyond criminal trespass. It’s an obvious show of force. It’s an obvious escalation. And it is a precedent that, having been set, will be applied to other groups. It will be applied to the next protest. Should someone at a protest commit an act of vandalism, are those who stand around that person now also domestic terrorists? If nothing more than property damage is what is required to support that charge, then we are living in a vastly different set of laws and set of rules than I think any of us really realize. It is contrary to so many core values of this country.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And at a press conference in February, you said that many of those who were present at the raid where Manuel was killed were even afraid to speak to you due to the mounting police targeting they’re experiencing. Could you talk about that?

JEFF FILIPOVITS: Yeah. I mean, anyone who was in the forest does not want to come forward. Now, as far as we know right now, there was no other direct witness to Manuel’s death aside from law enforcement. There were other people in the forest. Many of those people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. Would someone who was not arrested but in the forest want to come forward and put their name on a statement to anyone? Of course not, because look what has happened to every other person charged with domestic terrorism. They are facing an intense criminal charge. Many — most have been denied bond. And that is a way to silence people. I don’t know what else it could be."

#news #activism #police #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #HumanRights #environment #politics #USpol #DefendTheForest #JusticeForTort #ForestDefenders #DefendWeelaunee
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/14/cop_city_wrongful_death#transcript

I was just listening to #DemocracyNow who was interviewing someone about #StopCopCity, and how by charging monkeywrenchers (as we used to call them) with #DomesticTerrorism (instead of what it is, damaging property), they are trying to discourage not only future protests, but also any witnesses to Tort's brutal execution!
#news #activism #police #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #HumanRights #environment #politics #USpol #DefendTheForest #JusticeForTort #ForestDefenders

Autopsy reveals anti-'Cop City' activist's hands were raised when shot and killed #StopCopCity #PoliceBrutality #JusticeforTort https://youtube.com/watch?v=iL96WkE9ylU&feature=shares

A new independent autopsy shows that the “#StopCopCity” activist was likely sitting cross-legged on the ground with their hands raised when they were shot 14 times by police. #PoliceBrutality #JusticeforTort
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkae48/cop-city-activist-shot-hands-up-tortuguita-death?utm_source=VICE_Twitter&utm_medium=social+

Spotted in New Haven. Rest in power, Tort. #StopCopCity #justicefortort

The state executed forest defender Tortuguita while they were sitting, cross legged on the ground with both hands raised in the air. People protesting the execution are being charged with Domestic Terrorism. Take action today! #StopCopCity #JusticeForTort
#Atlanta #StopCopCity #JusticeforTort #EndPoliceBrutality #ACAB #PoliceTerrorism #Ecoterrorism #DefendtheForest
https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org

Tortuguita was sitting crosslegged with his hands up when he was shot at least 12 times. Let that sink in. #StopCopCity
#JusticeforTort #JusticeForTortuguita
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/1162843992/cop-city-atlanta-activist-autopsy

According to the autopsy, Tort's hands were raised when he was shot. This makes the GSP/GBI account impossible. There were exit wounds through both hands.
This will not be swept under the rug.
FUCK 🐷🐷
#JusticeforTort #StopCopCity @defendATLforest

Hundreds marched to STOP COP CITY on the weekend. 35 were arrested as they stood their ground. 23 are being charged for domestic terrorism. LET THEIR ACTION GALVANIZE YOU TO ACTION.
#StopCopCity #JusticeForTort

Already, like clockwork Marjorie Taylor Greene, fresh from CPAC, where speakers called for the literal “eradication” of transgender people, is tweeting about “ANTIFA” and “Communists,” while the police are again trotting out civil-rights era tropes of “outside agitators.” But people like Jean don’t buy that these attacks will stick like perhaps they once did. “The amount of solidarity is incredible here, the outside agitator tropes are not flying in the forest struggle. From church groups to pre-schools to HBCUs, everyone is enthusiastically embracing that this is not a “local struggle” and are asking people around the country to contribute,” Jean stated. “Along with the action [in Downtown Atlanta] on January 21st, this is a show of emergent movement strength: the numbers, people showing up from around the country, the strong local showing of Atlantans, the ability of a group to cohere and take action…”

#Atlanta #ATL #StopCopCity #CopCity #BlackLivesMatter #Tort #JusticeforTort #Tortuguita

https://itsgoingdown.org/solidarity-incredible-here-atl-cop-city/

Report via @UnicornRiot that upwards of 1,000 people have now re-taken Weelaunee People's Park and a massive music festival is now underway with food and literature tables.

#StopCopCity #Tortuguita #JusticeforTort #ATL #DefendtheForest