Racketeering charges follow long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and firefighter training facility.
Atlanta’s City Council OKs funding to build a police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of activists opposed to ‘Cop City.’Numerous instances of violence and vandalism have been linked to the decentralized “Stop Cop City” movement. A police car was set alight at a January protest in downtown Atlanta.
RICO charges carry a heavy potential sentence that can be added on top of the penalty for the underlying acts. Georgia’s RICO Act, adopted in 1980, makes it a crime to participate in, acquire or maintain control of an “enterprise” through a “pattern of racketeering activity” or to conspire to do so. “Racketeering activity” means to commit, attempt to commit — or to solicit, coerce or intimidate someone else to commit — one of more than three dozen state crimes listed in the law. At least two such acts are required to meet the standard of a “pattern of racketeering activity,” meaning prosecutors have to prove that a person has engaged in two or more related criminal acts as part of their participation in an enterprise to be convicted under RICO.
The case was initially assigned to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing the racketeering case Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis recently brought against former President Trump and 18 others. But McAfee recused himself, saying he had been working with prosecutors on the case prior to his judicial appointment. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams is now overseeing the case.
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movementSixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and training facility that critics call “Cop City.”
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movementSixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and training facility that critics call “Cop City.”
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movementSixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and training facility that critics call “Cop City.”
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61 Indicted In Georgia On Racketeering Charges Connected To 'Stop Cop City' MovementThe charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a proposed police and training facility in the Atlanta area.
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movementSixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and training facility that critics call “Cop City.”
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movementSixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against an Atlanta-area proposed police and training facility that critics call “Cop City.”.
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