"Attorney General Chris Carr has charged three people for a protest that took place nearly four years ago during the movement to stop Cop City in Atlanta. That’s according to a new grand jury indictment announced on April 23, which accuses the activists of property destruction and arson.
The charges are the latest in a years-long saga that has seen the state try, and fail, repeatedly to convict protesters and activists who organized against the city’s now finished $190 million police training complex.
All three of the people named in the latest indictment were previously charged as part of a wide-reaching conspiracy case wherein the state attempted to prosecute opponents of the police training facility as a criminal conspiracy. The Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization, or RICO, charges brought against 61 activists were dismissed earlier this year when a judge ruled Carr lacked the authority to bring the charges without permission from the Governor."
