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- Title
Police Murder Forest Defender Near Atlanta's Proposed "Cop City".
- Authors
Parkin, Scott
- Abstract
And this week in Atlanta, a forest defender name named Manual Teran, also known as Tortuguita or Tort was shot and killed by police on Wednesday. Folks, you've been listened to Micah who's an Atlanta based organizer, talking about the Atlanta forest defense campaign but then also the tragedy that happened around the murder of a forest defender by police. A forest defender, Manuel Teran, AKA "Tortuguita" or "Tort", was shot and killed by police on Wednesday during a violent raid of the protest camp and community gathering space that has blocked the construction of an enormous police training facility known as "Cop City" on roughly 100 acres of public forest in southeast Atlanta. This happened while they were carrying out a violent raid on a forest defense camp in Atlanta that was protesting the destruction of the forest and the construction of a police training facility that's known as "Cop City.".
- Subjects
ATLANTA (Ga.); KILLINGS by police; CIVIL disobedience; BLUE Lives Matter movement; POLICE shootings; SOLIDARITY; WORLD War I
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article