What happened in Atlanta is clearly part of a dangerous trend of US law enforcement attacking climate leaders
they arrived in the forest to “clear” the protesters and “returned fire in self-defense” when someone “without warning shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper”. Though the police who stormed the area were wearing body cams there is no footage to be shared. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation hasthat “although we have bodycam footage from the day of the operation, we do not have bodycam footage of the shooting incident.
This terrifying escalation lays bare the conflict between the corporate-backed police and those who are trying to save a precious forest Tortuguita’s tragic death could easily have been avoided. Dozens of militarized police with armored vehicles akin to tanks invaded the forest searching for people they had been told were “terrorists”. In reality, the people in the forest were camping out in hammocks and tents as acts of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is how our nation was founded.
What happened in Atlanta is clearly part of a dangerous trend of wholesale escalation and violence by US law enforcement, courts, and the fossil fuel industry to attack leaders of the climate movement. What starts with a
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