Article 6JHC8 Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes

Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes

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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta
from US news | The Guardian on (#6JHC8)

Pre-dawn operations in residential areas resulted in a woman forced out of her home with no shirt and a man dragged by his hair

Police in Georgia, together with federal agencies, are conducting a crackdown on activists involved in a continuing campaign against a controversial police and fire department training center known as Cop City" that has included acts of arson and sabotage against equipment being used on the project.

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair - while arresting none of them.

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