Activist killed in ‘Cop City’ protest had hands in the air when shot, family say

Manuel Paez Teran's family release results of independent autopsy after protester fatally shot by Georgia law enforcement

An environmental activist who was fatally shot in a confrontation with Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester's family said as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned.

The family of Manuel Paez Teran held a news conference in Decatur to announce the findings and said they were filing an open-records lawsuit seeking to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the 18 January killing of Paez Teran, who went by the name Tortuguita and used the pronoun they.