{"id":118258,"date":"2023-09-12T02:31:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118258"},"modified":"2023-09-12T02:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:31:17","slug":"cop-city-protestors-charged-with-racketeering-as-ga-takes-hard-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118258","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cop City Protestors Charged with Racketeering as GA Takes Hard Line&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/05\/cop-city-protesters-racketeering-charges-georgia\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/05\/cop-city-protesters-racketeering-charges-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>: &#8220;Dozens of activists who oppose a controversial police and fire training facility in Georgia known as Cop City have been charged with racketeering, appearing to confirm\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/03\/cop-city-protesters-homeland-security-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fears from civil rights groups<\/a>\u00a0that prosecutors are stepping up an aggressive pursuit of environmental protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 61 people \u2013 most not from Georgia \u2013 were indicted for violating the state\u2019s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act last week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime\/breaking-more-than-60-training-center-activists-named-in-rico-indictment\/DQ6B6GHTAJAJRH4SLGIIBAMXR4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the defendants face additional charges of money laundering and domestic terrorism, the newspaper reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: &#8220;Dozens of activists who oppose a controversial police and fire training facility in Georgia known as Cop City have been charged with racketeering, appearing to confirm\u00a0fears from civil rights groups\u00a0that prosecutors are stepping up an aggressive pursuit of environmental protesters. A total of 61 people \u2013 most not from Georgia \u2013 were indicted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118259,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118258\/revisions\/118259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}