A Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury indicted over 60 “Stop Cop City” activists on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) charges.
Yes, the same grand jury that indicted President Donald Trump.
Defend the Atlanta Forest group members have been occupying or at least trying to occupy the 381 acres of forest owned by the Atlanta Police Foundation since May 2022. The city leased the land to construct the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
We’ve covered the antics of these activists.
The latest indictment involves activists mentioned in this article:
Guess what. The majority of the defendants in this indictment are also not from Georgia. You’d think adding 40 people to the indictment would even out.
Nope.
I wish I had enough time to read the 109 pages. The indictment listed 225 alleged “overt acts in furtherance of the racketeering conspiracy.” Yikes!
Here is a good summary until I can read through it:
The bulk of the defendants named in the indictment involves protestors arrested on March 5 at the training center site. Twenty-three protestors were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism after allegedly throwing large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police officers at the site. All 23 only face one count of RICO in the indictment.Three people accused of handing out flyers in April identifying one of the troopers involved in the Teran’s death were also indicted. The flyers were distributed in Bartow County, which is the area where the trooper is believe to live, according to The Intercept.The indictment also names bail fund organizers, Marlon Scott Kautz, Adele Maclean and Savannah Patterson, who were arrested in May 2023 during a raid at a home on Mayson Avenue for alleged actions taken as executives with the nonprofit Network for Strong Communities, which supported the nonprofit Defend the Atlanta Forest. All three face one count of RICO and 15 counts of money laundering in the indictment.
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