So much for "Protect and Serve!" What's going on in your community? #TrumpDictatorship #GOPFascism #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #Brownshirts
#militarizedPolice
#ice #militarizedpolice #antiLGBTQIA #fascists #climatechangedeniers #prolife #bookburners #antivaxers #spaceballs
Defendants in Georgia ‘Cop City’ case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue
By R.J. RICO
Updated 12:26 AM EDT, May 12, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — "Single mother Priscilla Grim lost her job. Aspiring writer Julia Dupuis frequently stares at the bedroom ceiling, numb. Geography and environmental studies researcher Hannah Kass is worried about her career prospects after she graduates from her Ph.D. program.
"The three are among 61 defendants accused by Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr of participating in a yearslong racketeering conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility just outside Atlanta that critics pejoratively call 'Cop City.'
"Their cases are at a standstill, 20 months after being indicted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, which is likely the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history, experts say.
"Trial for five of the defendants was supposed to start last year but got bogged down in procedural issues. The judge overseeing the case then moved to another court. A new judge has set a status hearing for Wednesday.
"The delays have left people in limbo, facing charges carrying up to 20 years behind bars for what they maintain was #LegitimateProtest, not #DomesticTerrorism. The case also has suppressed a movement that brought together hundreds of #activists to protect a wooded patch of land that ultimately was razed for the recently completed $118 million, 85-acre (34-hectare) project.
"Officials say the project is sorely needed to replace outdated facilities and boost officers’ morale. Opponents say it will be a training ground for a #MilitarizedPolice force and its construction has worsened #environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area.
"Protests escalated after the fatal 2023 shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as #Tortuguita, who was camping near the site when authorities launched a clearing operation. Officials said they killed Tortuguita, 26, after the activist shot and wounded a trooper from inside a tent.
"A family-commissioned autopsy concluded Tortuguita was killed with their hands in the air, but a prosecutor found the officers’ use of force was 'objectively reasonable.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/cop-city-rico-charges-61-atlanta-be5ef1ed1951a73870656f61fbbc567b
#ACAB #StopCopCityQueens #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #JusticeForTort #USPol #StopCopCity #WeelauneeForest #DefendTheForest #CopCity #SilencingDissent #CiminalizingDissent #MilitarizedPolice
Trump's recent executive order to "unleash" police in America is actually a paint-by-numbers recipe for an authoritarian police state operating under a perpetual condition of martial law; and given the Swine Emperor's history, that should alarm Americans more than their media is letting on.
Nina-Bytes: A Road to Martial Law
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/02/nina-bytes-a-road-to-martial-law/
"Even if we didn’t know Trump is an unhinged fascist with a penchant for punitive violence, the combination of material state support for police criminality, arming up and training to occupy American communities, and the unification of military, police, and national security assets, including personnel apparently, into a single ad-hoc domestic security force would all be ominous signs of an impending dictatorship under martial law. If I’m being honest I don’t think the author of this piece is being alarmist enough given the scope of this executive order."
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #MartialLaw #ExecutiveOrder #ICE #DHS #DoD #DoJ #MigrantJustice #Police #MilitarizedPolice #GOP #Jan6 #Coup #Panopticon #Counterterrorism #WarOnTerror
Atlanta’s Cop City Funded by Billionaires Backing American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Underwriting thin blue line betw. Israel & Cop City
https://truthout.org/articles/atlantas-cop-city-is-funded-by-some-of-the-same-billionaires-who-back-aipac
* backers: Georgia Power Foundation; Home Depot; Bank of America; Chick-fil-A; Coca-Cola; Cox Foundation/Enterprises
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC
#IndustrialComplexes #capitalism #billionaires #CopCity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Palestine #MilitarizedPolice #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #AIPAC #corporations
Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran http://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/17/samuel_sharpe_shooting #SamuelSharpe #BlackLivesMatter #BlackVeterans #veterans #uspoli #RINC #MilitarizedPolice #policebrutality #PoliceMurder
The dignitaries have gone home and de-militarization has begun. The question remains, were they caged in or were we? #apec #sanfrancisco #SF #militarizedPolice #oligarchy
day 2 walking to work during the APEC summit: I was promised rain, protestors, and traffic, all I got was my neighborhood on lockdown
#NobHill #SanFrancisco #PlaygroundForTheRich #Oligarchy #PoliceState #EatTheRich #MilitarizedPolice #PrisonPlanet
'Stop Cop City' petition campaign in limbo after signatures presented to Atlanta officials (video)
https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-referendum-signatures-4b617a220807b6701c9f46745e4762c4
Officials from the City of Atlanta have refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted by activists who have been trying for two years to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training center.
#Atlanta #citygovernment #corruption #profit #developers #military #contractors #militarizedpolice #processviolation #referrendum #publicdemand
Addendum 6 cont'd
Greenpeace USA Pushes Back: This is NOT a Democracy
RICO actions pose serious threats to democracy, hence ability to advance climate justice
Via these harsh tactics officials protect polluters, punish activists
* response to the 61 activists indicted on racketeering charges in connection to the Stop Cop City movement
#RICO #GOP #Greenpeace #Atlanta #StopCopCity #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #extremism #DefundThePolice #neofascism #HumanRights #RightToProtest
Addendum 6
‘Cop City’ Activists Indicted on Racketeering Charges
Opponents engaged in legitimate protest
Prosecutors accuse them of sprawling criminal enterprise
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/cop-city-atlanta-indictment.html
Activist Responds to RICO Charges Intensifying Criminalization of Stop Cop City
https://truthout.org/articles/activist-responds-to-rico-charges-intensifying-criminalization-of-stop-cop-city
* 61 people indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges
#RICO #GOP #solidarity #Atlanta #StopCopCity #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #extremism #DefundThePolice #neofascism #HumanRights #RightToProtest
[thread] Police state, surveillance
See also: [thread] BigTech, invasion of privacy
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110707308719069088
Helicopter Footage f. Mass Arrest Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities, Tactics, Communications
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/helicopter-footage-from-mass-arrest-reveals-state-trooper-surveillance-capabilities-tactics-and-communications
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256217
#BigTech #surveillance #privace #PoliceState #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #ketting #MassArrest #RightToProtest #HumanRights #BLM
Addendum 3
Stop Cop City Activists Are Facing 20 Years in Prison for Distributing Flyers
Stop Cop City activist Charley Tennenbaum was charged with felony intimidation for flyering about the officers who shot an organizer 57 times
After months in prison, Tennenbaum spoke to Jacobin about Georgia’s crackdown on civil liberties
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/stop-cop-city-activists-prison-free-speech-police-brutality
#CharleyTennenbaum #MurderByCop #Tortuguita #StopCopCity #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #DefundThePolice #neofascism #HumanRights #RightToProtest
#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023
"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.
"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'
"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."
Background: Back to Fairy Creek
"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.
"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.
"Until now.
"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."
Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html
#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy
Street takeover looters steal from Portland business | kgw.com https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/street-takeover-portland-car-racing-looters-steal-7-11-store/283-cc84daac-5766-427e-8b96-0bc682094498
If these were climate crisis protesters PPB would have been out in force tear gassing and arresting people. They dont have limited staffing - the proud boys werent there.
#PPB
#PDX
#StreetRacing
#PPBNoResponse
#MilitarizedPolice
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