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A Georgia Senate panel investigating the crisis of skyrocketing deaths, overcrowding, and violence inside Fulton County’s pretrial detention system held its first public hearing on Thursday. Senate Republicans announced the special study subcommittee on Fulton’s jails in October after a tenth person died in Sheriff Patrick “Pat” Labat’s custody in just nine months. Read more
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By: Matt Scott This story has been updated to include a response from the City of Atlanta Department of Law, which was not initially received prior publication. On Oct. 3, WSB-TV ran a story on the arrest of Cop City opponent Matthew Johnson complete with a video package created by the Atlanta Police Department (APD)… Read more
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By: Matt ScottVideo story by: Nolan Huber-Rhoades This story has been updated to include more recent death tolls and to correct a misspelling of the name of the Palestinian student organizer, Nada. Led by students, hundreds of people took to the streets of Downtown Atlanta on Thursday in support of Palestine, calling for an end… Read more
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The Georgia Attorney General is taking a page out of the Philippines’ playbook By: Malaya Georgia Luke “Lucky” Harper was arrested on March 5 and endured 90 days in Dekalb County Jail on accusations of domestic terrorism—the longest period of time the state may hold someone without indicting them. A Filipino-American born in the motherland,… Read more
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By: Matt Scott Mountain District Attorney (DA) George R. Christian released a 31-page report on Friday and determined that no charges will be filed against the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) SWAT officers responsible for the January killing of environmental activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán near the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center,… Read more
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By: Matt Scott On Saturday, around 200 people joined the family of Johnny Hollman in a march on Atlanta City Hall to demand the public release of body camera footage of Hollman’s death at the hands of Atlanta Police Department Officer Kiran Kimbrough in August, but new guidance from city attorneys indicates that footage of Hollman’s death – or… Read more
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The family of Johnny Hollman announced plans to march on Atlanta City Hall from Dean Rusk Park, at noon on Saturday, Sept. 23, to demand the release of footage taken from the body camera worn by the Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer who killed their loved one. The 62-year-old deacon was killed by 23-year-old APD officer… Read more
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By: Matt Scott Update: Block Cop City organizers now say the nationwide tour will cover 70 cities. Just days after members of the clergy and other people of faith chained themselves to construction equipment at the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site, a new group, Block Cop City, announced plans for a mass action on Nov.… Read more
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By Nneka Ewulonu RICO charges usually invoke the image of mob bosses and crime aficionados. But in Georgia – where the state RICO law is broader than its federal counterpart – the state recently levied RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists and Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers. The sprawling 109 page indictment, first made… Read more
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Thursday morning a group of Cop City activists invoked a “people’s stop work order” and chained themselves to equipment at the construction site for the proposed Atlanta Safety Public Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City. Read more
