Atlanta Cop City

  

"about 110 officers from five agencies 

 took part in the raid, 50 from Atlanta, together with a helicopter equipped with an infrared camera, ATV vehicles, and a K9 officer –  

to clear the forest of about 20 people.

Officers were told they were clearing the future site of Cop City, but the operation took place in a 140-acre public park about a mile away. .

The activists in the forest were labelled “domestic terrorists” 

 in the operation’s planning document – but only a handful had been arrested and charged with that crime, a month earlier. None have been found guilty, two years later.

Although the operation’s planning document repeatedly calls the activists who were camped in the forest “domestic terrorists”, the only notation under the planning document’s 

 “History of violence/ weapons” category is “[p]reviously attacked officers with fireworks and slingshots”.

Importantly, the document also authorizes officers to shoot pepper balls if they find a protester in a tree house, and that “[t]he pepper ball will not be targeted at the suspect, but at the area around them”. 

 It says nothing about shooting pepper balls into tents. Pepper balls can result in permanent injury, according to research. 

During the early-morning briefing nearby, they were told to allow any protesters they came across to leave, after checking their IDs. But an unnamed official changed the orders, telling officers to arrest everyone they came across,   

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Reflecting on the activists, Shaer, the journalist, said: 

 “I’m not sure I’ve ever believed in anything as much as them. 

 The energy and life it gave them, the resolve they showed … People came to the forest and built a miniature city – it didn’t work forever; but it worked for a while. There’s something to admire ' 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-killing.

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"I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps bi ds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” she wrote, 

 before going on to say that his victims have included family members and the parents of sick children." 

"Caroline alleges that his “crusade against vaccination” has served to benefit him financially, and that his actions are hypocritical to what he publicly states.

She said that he had discouraged parents from vaccinating their children  

while in fact vaccinating his own children..

 He also influenced other members of the Kennedy family 

 “down the path of drug addiction” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/caroline-kennedy-rfk-letter