A Rico of nature

  

"One thing several attorneys were able to confirm: any defendants arrested in the public park where protesters camped for more than a year could not have been “trespassing”,  

as arrest warrants alleged. Signs are now posted in that part of the forest saying the area has been off limits to the public  

only since DeKalb county closed down the park in March 2023 – after all arrests occurred. 

The state’s case centers on Rico, or criminal conspiracy law – originally developed to prosecute the mafia.  

It names 61 people in what experts have told the Guardian is the largest number of defendants ever  

in a Rico case involving a protest or social movement.  

The state’s indictment, handed down on 29 August 2023, mentions  

the word “forest”  

310 times  

in 109 pages, according to De Janon’s motion.  

Several attorneys noted how large and beautiful the forest is – secondary-growth woods filled with loblolly pines and water oaks.

“I had no idea such a forest existed, and so close to the city,” said attorney Suri Chadha Jiménez.  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/cop-city-protesters-lawyer-visit-site

 

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Forest forest forest forest forest forest forest.       copforest    cityforest                                        wordforest.        

 

(Even when some trees are replaced, it is with a single type of trees planted the same distance from each other, rather than different trees at random placement and age as in the native forest)

       "The South River Forest or Weelaunee Forest is an area in southeast metro Atlanta DeKalb County, Georgia, United States named after the nearby South River. The South River is also known by its Muscogee Creek name,  

the "Weelaunee". 

 'The area includes significant disparate, undeveloped forested parcels that help protect the river and tributaries, one of the lungs of Atlanta to be established as a conservation" zone. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_River_Forest 

'The American city of Atlanta, Georgia has a reputation as the "city in a forest" due to its abundance of trees, uncommon among major cities. Tree coverage was estimated at 47.9% for 2008, in a 2014 study." 

'Atlanta's tree coverage does not go unnoticed—it was the main reason cited by National Geographic in naming Atlanta a "Place of a Lifetime":

For a sprawling city with the nation’s ninth-largest metro area, Atlanta is surprisingly 

 lush with trees—magnolias, dogwoods, Southern pines, and magnificent oaks.".

'A 2001 study found that Atlanta's heavy tree cover declined from 48% in 1974 to 38% in 1996. This loss of tree canopy resulted in a 33% increase in stormwater runoff, and a loss of 11 million pounds of pollutants removed annually. " 

Thank gosh there are many varieties of cop planted across our fine nation. There's the helpful cop, the friendly cop, the quiet cop, the white cop, the Hispanic, brown, Asian cop, even the gay cop in certain environments. There's the ex military cop, the son of minister cop, the by the books cop, the lone wolf cop, and the spanking cop and his close cousin, the paddle happy cop. Together they form a tight cop of security and safety for a rico cop nation, thank cop.