The defendants include a legal observer arrested at a protest, activists who distributed fliers, and others who ran a bail fund.
They were doing things like snatching and grabbing people indiscriminately and they ended up grabbing several legal observers.The RICO charges also name three activists who were arrested this summer and charged with money laundering and charity fraud connected to their work running a bail fund that supported Stop Cop City defendants.
Even where some defendants are accused of property damage at the proposed construction site, civil rights organizations have previously condemned the terrorism charges as a step too far. Enacted after a white supremacist shooting in 2017, Georgia’s terrorism law is a broadly written statute that allows people to face terror charges for damaging property—not just hurting people. Responding to the previous terrorism charges against Stop Cop City protesters,decried the new law as “overbroad” legislation that “can be wielded to disproportionately punish people who express political beliefs.
“These prosecutions exemplify a highly problematic trend of both the federal and state government: using domestic terrorism powers to punish dissent,” the ACLU said.
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