More Than 60 'Stop Cop City' Activists Hit With RICO Charges in Georgia
Protestors reacts before the council members voted 11 to 4 to approve legislation to fund the training center, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Atlanta.
Prosecutors in Georgia have filed racketeering charges against several dozen people after a state investigation into ongoing local protests against a proposed police training facility that protestors have named “Cop City,” the Associated Press reported.
A newly unsealed filing dated August 29, 2023, from the Fulton County court lists the 61 people being indicted. The filing described those involved in opposing the training facility as “anarchist” and “anti-police.” The indictment accused those mentioned in the filing of arson, attacks on law enforcement officers, and destruction of government property. The accusation comes under Georgia’s racketeering law, which is also known as a RICO law. It’s the very same law that was recently used to indict former President Donald Trump and several of his associates.
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