TheAltWorld Cop City Crackdown: 61 Face RICO Charges for Opposing Police Militarization
- Rania Khalek
- Friday 8 Sep 23
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The Georgia Attorney General’s office charged 61 activists under the state’s racketeering, or RICO, statute, for opposing the construction of the $90 million police militarization facility in Atlanta, which activists call “Cop City.”
Keyanna Jones, a ‘Stop Cop City’ organizer with Community Movement Builders, discusses the ongoing state repression on the growing movement.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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