Georgia Prosecutor Refuses to Charge State Troopers Who Killed Tortuguita

Human rights advocates on Friday condemned a Georgia prosecutor’s decision to not charge the state troopers who fatally shot forest defender Manuel Esteban Paez Terán — better known as “Tortuguita” — during a militarized January raid at a Stop Cop City protest camp outside Atlanta. “The system has, once again, declared its own innocence,” Stop Cop City activist Micah Herskind wrote on social media…

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