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A year after Manuel Teran's Cop City death, their family searches for answers, and the state indicts protestors on RICO charges

Manuel Teran gave up everything to live in the forest. Nine months after their death, their family searches for answers, and the state cracks down on their fellow protesters

The years-long fight over a planned police training center in an urban forest near Atlanta has pitted community, climate, and justice activists against law enforcement. The result has been violence, arrests—and a renewed crackdown on protest.

Since its approval by the Atlanta City Council in 2021, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—more commonly referred to as Cop City—has been a flashpoint of controversy. The $90 million facility is set to be built within a large forest adjacent to predominantly Black and poor neighborhoods; in protest, activists have taken up residence in the forest to try to stop its construction. In January, conflict between police and protesters turned deadly. On episode 72 of The Politics o...

ATLANTA—On Aug. 10, 2023, Johnny Hollman said goodbye to his daughter and left his Bible study, just as he had done so many times before. Hollman, the chairman of the Deacon Board at The Lively Stones of God Ministries Church of Atlanta, died in police custody before he even got home.

Officials in Georgia are covering up the police killing of a protester and waging a chilling assault on the right to protest.

“The struggle goes on in the streets, in the forest, and now in the courts.”

Despite being named in a Georgia RICO indictment, Priscilla Grim believes the movement can still win with care, courage and resilience.

Opponents of a police training facility in Atlanta say they are engaged in legitimate acts of protest. Prosecutors accuse them of taking part in a sprawling criminal enterprise.

The city is fighting back against a federal judge’s ruling last week that said Atlanta’s residency requirements for signature collectors in the “Vote to Stop Cop City” referendum petition drive likely violates their First Amendment rights.