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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 a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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