Article 6B0B6 ‘Cop City’ activist’s official autopsy reveals more than 50 bullet wounds

‘Cop City’ activist’s official autopsy reveals more than 50 bullet wounds

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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta
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No gunpowder residue found on Manuel Paez Teran, who was alleged to have fired first in fatal confrontation with Georgia police

Official autopsy results for Manuel Paez Teran, an environmental activist police shot and killed three months ago during a raid in a Georgia public park near the planned site of a police and fire department training center, do little to advance the state's version of events, including the notion that the activist shot first, wounding an officer.

Paez Teran, or Tortuguita", was one of the forest defenders" camped throughout the public park less than a mile away from the planned center, known as Cop City", when dozens of officers entered the South River Forest south-east of Atlanta, Georgia, on 18 January.

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