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‘Cop City’ protester Manuel Terán shot at least 13 times by police – autopsy

‘Cop City’ protester Manuel Terán shot at least 13 times by police – autopsy

Protester who opposed Georgia’s planned police-training facility was first environmental activist killed by police in US historyThe environmental activist who was killed by police in Atlanta while protesting against Georgia’s planned “Cop City” was shot more than a dozen times, according to private autopsy results released by his family.Officers from multiple agencies shot and killed Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, on 18 January after authorities moved through the camp of activists who were in a forest to protest a planned $90m police training facility. Dozens of officers from the Atlanta police department, the Dekalb county police, the Georgia state patrol, the Georgia bureau of investigation and the FBI swept through the camp.

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