The , the alleged terrorists were not accused of taking any illegal actions beyond misdemeanor trespassing.
A photo of Manuel Teran, who was killed during a police raid inside Weelaunee People’s Park, the planned site of a controversial “Cop City” project.
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In late January, police killed one activist on the land that is slated to become a police training ground. During a raid on a protest encampment in the forest, police fatally shot Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, an environmental activist known as Tortuguita. Police accuse Tortuguita of shooting an officer, a claim Tortuguita’s fellow activists dispute.
The killing is under review. May, an Atlanta activist who asked to withhold her last name, likened the opaque situation to East Palestine, where Norfolk Southern officials initially declined to attend community meetings after the derailment.
“When I saw the experience of people in East Palestine, trying to ask for justice, to be done right by this company that poisoned them, and having my own experiences with poisoned water, I felt their pain,” May told The Daily Beast. “The company refused to see them face-on.”
Though separated by hundreds of miles, East Palestine and Atlanta are connected—as is every town “where we might face a derailment like this,” she said.
On Thursday, officials in Texas announced that toxic wastewater that was used to fight the chemical fire in East Palestine was being shipped to a Houston suburb, where it would be injected into the ground for disposal.
Texans told the Associated Press that they were concerned about accidents during the chemicals’ cross-country journey.
“It’s foolish to put it on the roadway. We have accidents on a regular basis,” one told the outlet.
