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2023-03-07 Fifth Column
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Only 2 of the 23 Suspects Charged With Domestic Terrorism in ‘Cop City' Attack From Georgia
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 [LI] Cross-State Travel for Terrorism
Whenever something happens at the site of Atlanta’s future Public Safety Training Facility, most of the terrorists involved are not even from Georgia.
The Defend the Atlanta Forest group has been occupying the area for years. Confrontations have become the norm, but tensions escalated in January after a cop shot and killed one of the terrorists in self-defense.
The terrorists are still mad.
A violent confrontation between Antifa and cops on Sunday after the terrorists engaged in a preplanned attack on the construction site. From Fox 5:
Officials say around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, dozens of protesters left the nearby South River Music Festival, changed into black clothing, and entered the site of the controversial proposed police training center.
"This was a very violent attack that occurred, this evening very violent attack," Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said near the scene.
A video released by Atlanta Police shows what appears to be fireworks aimed at officers. In the same video, you can see items including rocks and Molotov cocktails being thrown by protestors in the direction of police, a tipped-over vehicle that later became engulfed in flames, and protestors attempting to set other pieces of construction equipment on fire.
Schierbaum called the incident a "coordinated, criminal attack against officers."
Courtesy of Omiting Theting7288:
Atlanta Police video of violent demo (attack) against new public safety training center
[YouTube] A comment of interest at the link:
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Please note the The green hats of the NLG standing just outside the fence 3:47 and 5:06 pro bono legal civil observers were just driving by ? Hot tip, after watching the black block do this for 2 years in Seattle, if you see the green hats "observing" GTFO -Sh*t's going to go down.
Legal Observer Hit with Terrorism Charges After Mass ‘Cop City’ Arrests
[MSN] A legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild
| ...leftwing activist lawyers who hang back at Black Bloc actions to “observe” and provide legal services for those arrested... |
was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism while monitoring a Sunday night demonstration against an Atlanta police training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”
Thomas Jurgens is an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the civil-rights group confirmed on Monday. Jurgens also works with the National Lawyers Guild, which monitors protests. Jurgens was acting as a legal observer at the time of his arrest in Atlanta, the NLG said in a statement. He is one of more than 40 people charged with domestic terrorism in connection to protests against Cop City, raising concerns from civil liberties advocates.
“An employee at the SPLC was arrested while acting—and identifying—as a legal observer on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG),” the SPLC said in a statement. “The employee is an experienced legal observer, and their arrest is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters.”
The proposed police training facility—a $90 million, 85-acre project on the current site of an Atlanta forest—has been the subject of long-running opposition from environmentalists, racial justice activists, and religious leaders. Tensions escalated at the proposed construction site in late 2022, when police began a series of arrests on domestic terrorism charges, even though many of the defendants are not accused of any illegal activity beyond misdemeanor trespassing, Grist reported at the time.
Police arrested 35 people after they destroyed construction equipment at a training facility referred to as "Cop City." Environmental and anti-police protesters have attacked the site several times.
Officials in the southern US state of Georgia on Monday announced that 23 protesters, including a Frenchie and a Canadian, had been charged with domestic terrorism after Atlanta police arrested 35 people on Sunday.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, who announced the initial arrests a midnight presser Sunday, said "violent mostly peaceful agitators" had launched a coordinated attack on police.
HOW HAVE GEORGIA POLITICIANS REACTED TO PROTESTS?
Sunday's festivities were the latest in a series of contentious stand-offs between authorities and protesters.
On January 18, a 26-year-old environmental activist muppet was shot and killed during a police raid to clear protesters from the woods. In the aftermath of the shooting, demonstrations spread to downtown Atlanta.
On January 21, a police cruiser was set ablaze and windows were shattered when rocks and fireworks were hurled at a downtown skyscraper housing the Atlanta Police Foundation.
Such protests have prompted Georgia state politicians to look at toughening laws and sentencing, for instance, by proposing that rioting be made a felony rather than a misdemeanor.
Those previously arrested during festivities at the site are being charged with felony domestic terrorism, which can carry sentences of up to 35 years.
Despite criticism of heavy-handedness, politicians are also looking at classifying domestic terrorism as a violent mostly peaceful felony. That would mean an individual's entire sentence would have to be served — even for first-time offenders who would not be eligible for probation — and parole could not be granted until at least 30 years of the sentence had been served.
Critics have voiced alarm over what they see as the criminalization of protesters, especially environmental and land-rights defenders attempting to block pipelines and protect woodlands and waterways, by labeling them eco-terrorists.
They say the breadth of the 2001 Patriot Act allows the government to put corporate profits before land stewardship and the public good with politicians criminalizing peaceful protest and using militarized police to violent mostly peacefully suppress it under penalty of harsh sentencing.
ATLANTA POLICE BRACE FOR FURTHER PROTESTS
Police on Monday said the Georgia Bureau of Investigations would be prosecuting those charged.
Beyond two foreign nationals, two of those arrested were Georgia residents. All others were from various states across the US, including Arizona, Massachusetts and New York.
The vast majority of peaceful protesters were Atlanta residents.
More demonstrations are scheduled for the coming days, prompting Atlanta police to release a statement reading, "With protests planned for the coming days, the Atlanta Police Department, in collaboration with law enforcement partners, have a multi-layered strategy that includes reaction and arrest."
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