Concert attendees randomly arrested during “Cop City” protests are being denied bond (3/23/23, The New Republic)

    Earlier this month, at least 35 people were indiscriminately detained at a music festival organized by the people protesting Cop City, an under-construction gargantuan police training facility that would raze the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. Twenty-three of them were charged with domestic terrorism.

    The arrested protesters are accused of participating in vandalism and arson at a construction site over a mile away from where the music festival was held. While all were charged with domestic terrorism, there has been no proof they were involved in illegal activity.

Climate activist killed in “Cop City” protest sustained 57 gunshot wounds, official autopsy says, but questions about gunpowder residue remain (4/20/23, CNN)

    One central question the autopsy leaves unanswered is whether there was forensic evidence proving, as authorities have claimed, that the activist, Manuel Esteban Paez “Tortuguita” Terán, fired a gun.

    In the report, the examiner noted there was no visible gunpowder observed on Terán’s hands.