Officials charged five suspects connected to a far-left occupation in Atlanta, Georgia, with domestic terrorism and additional charges.
“Before the raid on Tuesday leading to the finding of explosives, the members of the autonomous zone had been terrorizing the community. A man who drove into the area thinking there was free junk was nearly killed when they set his car on fire w/him in it,” NgoIn a press release Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation the five people were arrested and charged after an operation at the training center’s future location.
Several individuals were previously arrested at the location regarding criminal activity that included carjacking, crimes against persons, destruction of property, arson, and attacks on public safety officials, the GBI noted. “Yesterday, several people threw rocks at police cars and attacked EMT’s outside the neighboring fire stations with rocks and bottles. Task force members used various tactics to arrest individuals who were occupying makeshift treehouses,” the agency said.
“They were not involved in endangering anybody. They were sitting passively in trees trying to express a political position,” a leader of a group trying to halt construction at the site
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