The trial accuses the Police in Atlanta of targeting "Stop Protesthers"

Atlanta (AP) – the Atlanta police have been illegally criticized for years of a police and firefighter training center, according to a federal process submitted on behalf of a protester who is one of the dozens of activists “stopped from the police city” who is facing internal terrorism and missile charges.

The trial, submitted on behalf of Jamie Marsicano, argues that the authorities consider any critic of the training center as a criminal and have repeatedly made arrests without cause, depriving the protesters of their first amendment and the protection of their civil rights against false arrests and the malicious pursuit.

Long-lasting controversies on the training center broke out in January 2023 after the state troops that were part of a South River forest killed an activist Or who said the authorities had fired at them. There have been numerous protests, masked vandals sometimes attacking police vehicles and construction equipment to block the project and intimidate the contractors to withdraw.

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Although the training center is almost completelyDozens of defendants including Marsicano, face a State rocket fee That critics decreed that heavy attempts to silence the movement, which appeared following the protests of 2020 racial justice. Environmental activists and anti-political protesters have argued that the root of trees for the installation would aggravate the damage of the environment in a black area prone to floods, while serving as an expensive landscape land for militarized officers to be trained in the social movement.

Marsicano, 31, was among 23 people arrested near a music festival In Dekalb County, in March 2023, a few hours after a group of over 150 masked festivals traveled about three quarters of miles (1.2 kilometers) through the South River forest and stormed the place of construction of the training center, with some lighting on fire, while others throw objects. The group then returned to the festival to mix with the crowd.

According to an arrest warrant, the authorities said that Marsicano, who uses their pronouns, was arrested because they had “lucky clothing” since crossing through the forest and held a shield, the statements that Marsicano’s lawyers say they are false.

Marsicano’s lawyers say their client was not among the group that attacked the yard and never left the festival’s land until they were arrested while returning to their vehicle, after the police ordered everyone to disperse.

Marsicano was caught in a “massy mass arrest of the participants in the Legitim Festival”, which was part of a spear model by the Police Chief of Atlanta, Darin Schierbaum, of the authorities concerning the “Stop Cop City” movement, according to the process, which was submitted on February 24.

Later, Marsicano was accused of internal terrorism and, Monday later, he was one of the 61 accused of violating the law on influenced and corrupt organizations of Georgia, known as Rico.

Marsicano has been banned from the University of North Carolina to Chapel Hill campus After their arrest and they concluded the Diploma of Law from a distance, but had difficulty finding a job and providing homes due to the accusations, according to the trial.

Marsicano was “publicly broadcast in the world as” internal terrorist “and” co-conspirator Rico “, forever, who faces the personal and professional life of the applicant,” the trial said.

The process lists more than a dozen cases in which the authorities “Persons accused pretextually have considered that they are at or around the stop of the policeman”, including after a protest from May 2022, in which three people “were selectively stopped for the transport of the stops of the stop city” and taken to arrest. These arrests, as well as others, have led to civil processes that are pending.

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Marsicano’s trial names various officials for the law, as well as the city of Atlanta, which he accuses of making a “and practical and practical” of the criticisms of the training center.

Neither the Police Department of Atlanta, no city spokesman responded immediately to a comment request.

City officials say that the $ 115 million campus, 85 acres (34 hectares) will replace the outdated, distant facilities and stimulate the police morale against the background of employment and restraint struggles. Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens also said that the installation will learn “the most progressive training and curriculum in the country” and that officials have repeatedly reviewed plans to address environmental problems.