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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

The Stop Cop City story is filled with bone-chilling state overreach.

APD and GBI tried (and failed) to charge an activist group with RICO. A SWAT team raided an activist's home, and arrested 3 on charges of money laundering.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

There's a recording of cops admitting to "going after their money." The activist group in question raises bail money for protesters. APD wanted to disrupt protesters' ability to legally defend themselves.

https://youtu.be/8vPX38M1y7g

@protonprivacy

In a joint operation with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, or GBI, Atlanta cops charged Marlon Scott Kautz, Adele Maclean, and Savannah Patterson β€” all board members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund - with "money laundering" and "charity fraud." The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.