'Stop Cop City' campaigners decry state's refusal to charge Georgia troopers who shot activist 57 times
'Stop Cop City' campaigners decry state's refusal to charge Georgia troopers who shot activist 57 times
"The system has, once again, declared its own innocence," lamented one activist after a Georgia prosecutor's office said it would not charge the killers of Manuel Terán, better known as "Tortuguita."
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57 huh? Seems absolutely on the up & up and I didn't need to read the article. Acab
Georgia opened up a massive military-compound like police training facility in a forest. Protesters were camped out nearby.
Cops came and cleared out the camp and executed this man. They claim he shot at them and they returned fire. Forensics showed the victim had no gunshot residue on his hands. There is also apparently body camera footage but cops of course won't release it.
The body cam footage also shows the cops likely shot each other.
To be fair they hadn't completed training yet
Cant tell if this is serious or not.
Lol if you don't know not to shoot fellow cops unless you've had training you're probably a prime candidate to be a cop
Now I'm picturing two groups of cops on opposite sides of a forest clearing yelling "I'm taking fire" while blasting away at the opposite side, and some poor bastard in the middle getting caught in the crossfire before the morons figure out they were the ones shooting at each other.
Sometimes it's hard to tell maliciousness from massive incompetence because police often departments seem to have so much of both in ready supply.
Me neither. Which sorta sums up the whole situation, in Georgia and in America.
Georgia opened up a massive military-compound like police training facility in a forest. Protesters were camped out nearby.
It's not built yet, and hopefully never will be. The cops were attacking the protestors because they wanted, among other things, to clear the way for construction.
Maybe a strange question but are there bad-cop murders in the US?
I mean you could find out quite easily who the shooter was and considering the quite tense situation with police brutality it doesn't seem far fetched that family or friends might want to get revenge.
Are there cases where people try to take justice into their own hands?
The most publicized one is Christopher Dorner, in which a good cop decided he'd had enough. It included both a demonstration of how little the cops care who they hurt once they have decided you are going down, and sadly (and IMO only) IIRC from the last time I read the details, Christopher Dorner did legit go a bit too far to cheer him as a hero of the people in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt
Don't miss this section though:
As proven time and time again by police, the very basic gun safety rule of "Know your target and what is behind it" applies to literally every other gun owner except police.
Jesus christ. I appreciate the synopsis, I hate the outcome.
And they're using RICO to go after activists too.