A special prosecutor will not charge the six Georgia State Patrol troopers who shot and killed an environmental protestor at the proposed site for the controversial Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who went by “Tortuguita” and used they/them pronouns, was shot and killed by six Georgia State Troopers on Jan. 18 as officers raided campgrounds occupied by environmental demonstrators who had allegedly been camping out for months to protest the development of the training center, dubbed “Cop City” by critics.
After months of investigating, the Stone Mountain Circuit District Attorney’s Office says the troopers’ use of lethal force was “objectively reasonable under the circumstances of the case.”
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Instantly and uncritically believing the word of a cop is a great way to justify murder.
Cops wouldn’t take a bullet to the spine to justify a murder. If they just want to kill someone, they’ll just kill them
Edit: nvm, seems it was friendly fire
Guess that’s not too surprising
6 months to be a cop, 2 years to be a hairdresser. This country is fucked
Cops would use friendly fire to justify murder.
Cops would murder to cover up their friendly fire even.
So “killing them” is still “murder”, right? Check this out:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/1162843992/cop-city-atlanta-activist-autopsy
That’s not “they shot them”. And then blew him up and blamed it on him.
This is a tale as old as the slave catchers themselves. Let’s not buy it wholesale.
Except he didn’t shoot at them, as evidenced by the lack of any GSR during the autopsy.
Most likely scenario at this point is blue on blue i.e. another cop fired their gun, and this cop let loose on an unarmed activist who was, at time of death, had his hands up.
No way it was a single cop executing him, with both hands and arms sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. That was a straight up firing squad execution…