A civil rights group called for a federal investigation into the arrest of three organizers of a bail fund that helps protesters fight against a proposed police training center.
, a bail fund that has helped in protesters’ fight against Cop City, raising deep concerns about the state’s seeming quest to paint protesters against Cop City as “terrorists.
“The actions of Atlanta and Georgia authorities risk intimidating those who oppose the urban warfare training facility widely known as Cop City. We hope the Atlanta Police Foundation, its corporate supporters, and law enforcement officials in Georgia will be subject to the same exacting scrutiny and standards to which the Solidarity Fund is being subjected,” said LDF President Janai S. Nelson.
“The discretionary misuse of law enforcement to surveil, intimidate, and criminalize those who seek to change the status quo has long precedent in the civil rights movement. The recent labeling of environmental activists opposing Cop City as domestic terrorists raises the same alarm,” Nelson continued. “These unsavory practices are a prelude of what law enforcement will be empowered to pursue with even more resources should Cop City come to pass.
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