#manuel esteban paez terán

[commiepinkofag]

September 10, 2009 Atlanta's Police Vice Squad and paramilitary 'Red Dog' unit illegally raided the Atlanta Eagle Bar

Settlements from lawsuits filed by victims of the raid reached over 1 million.

Per a court order, the APD created a one-hour training video which all officers have to watch and answer an accompanying set of questions.

The 'Red Dog Unit' was disbanded and replaced with another unit — currently named 'Titan'.

The Titan Unit "will have to be more aggressive," Police Chief Rodney Bryant told a House committee. But, Bryant also assured lawmakers "in no way" would it "replace what Red Dog was." — 2021

'Red Dog' was at one point was led by Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis, who then created the 'Scorpion Unit' in Memphis — the 'Scorpion Unit' subsequently responsible for the murder of Tyre Nichols.

Police falsely imprisoned Atlanta Eagle bar patrons, employees in raid, rules citizen review board

Among the many racist and homophobic slurs used by police that night, an officer was heard saying, “Raiding a gay bar is fun, we should do it every week.” ['alleged']

The owner of the Atlanta Eagle stated that the city's actions following the ruling have been "nothing more than a slap in the face of the gay community".

Review finds widespread wrongdoing in Atlanta Eagle bar raid [2011] Two officers from Atlanta Eagle raid in trouble again; complaints allege groping, body search [2011]

The officers named involved in the Atlanta Eagle raid were: Sgt. John Brock, Sgt. Willie Adams III, Sgt. Kelley Collier, Officer Melonie Mague, Officer Robert Goodwin, Officer Stallone Davis, Investigator Bennie Bridges, Officer Jeremy Edwards, Officer Dimitri Jaques, Officer Dione Meredith, Officer James Menzoian, Officer Cayenne Mayes, Officer Christopher Dowd, Officer Craig Condon, Investigator Herman Glass, Investigator Timothy McClain, Officer Brandon Jackson, Officer Marlon Noble, Officer Stephanie Upton, Officer William Porter, Officer William B. Walters, Officer Vincente Marcano, Officer Darnell Perry and Officer Jared Watkins.

14 years after the notorious raid…

The Eagle reopens in a new location, after closure during the Covid epidemic.

#queer history #atlanta #georgia #2009 #2000s #00s #police violence #police raid #red dog #red dog unit #atlanta police department #gay bar #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbqti #queer #acab #fascism #antifa #defund the police #stop cop cit #scorpion unit #tyre nichols #black lives matter #bennie bridges #cerelyn davis #memphis #manuel esteban paez terán #tortuguita

[gwydionmisha]

I am furious.

#Georgia #Police Murder #Queer Activist #Cop City #Manuel Esteban Paez Terán #Injustice System #News

[the-happy-man]

No, not "separately": "Plans to build a $90m police and fire department training facility on the land and, separately, a film studio." Hollywood is Cop Love. Hollywood is anywhere and everywhere cultural hegemony is called for. Cop City's first film really ought be the thrilling, action-packed story of the tracking and killing of the outlaw Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.

#Manuel Esteban Paez Terán #police state #police violence #hollywood pollution #georgia film #cultural hegemony #cop city #film society

[maplewoodstreet]

CONTENT WARNING: police, violence

Some Stop Cop City TikToks caught my attention

and got me interested in learning more about Cop City. I thought I would share some of the information I found.

from Police Foundations. These are not necessarily corporations that donated to Cop City, but they are to show that donating to police is something corporations regularly do.

Cop City is another name for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Funded with $90,000,000 in taxes and donations.

Largest police training facility in the United States.

Located in the densest black populated area in Georgia.

Cop City is being built in one of Atlanta’s last forests.

Stop Cop City protester and environmentalist activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was shot “12 or 13” times by a police officer despite Terán not firing at the police. The cop did not face charges because the killing was “objectively reasonable under the circumstances of this case”.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr described Defend Atlanta Forest as “an anarchist, anti-police, and anti-business extremist organization” and 61 activists have been charged with domestic terrorism.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) directly shares strategies with the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). “The Atlanta Police Department and Fulton County SWAT teams had conducted training exercises in an abandoned hotel to remove “Hamas terrorists’.”

Corporations like Dunkin Donuts parent corporation Inspire Brands, Coca-Cola, Chic-Fil-A, Bank of America, UPS, Norfolk Southern, and more help fund Cop City with multimillion-dollar donations. Coca-Cola, UPS, Chic-Fil-A, and more made statements during the murder of George Floyd with things like “…end the cycle of systemic racism”, “creating social impact, advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion”, and “building stronger communities.” Corporations often donate to police foundations.

Articles sourced:

https://prismreports.org/2023/11/14/stop-cop-city-gilee-palestinian-genocide/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2023/03/14/cops-and-donuts-go-together-more-than-you-thought-the-corporations-funding-cop-city-in-atlanta/ 

I’m not a professional or even a hobbyist journalist, so if I have wrong information here, please let me know.

#stop cop city #cop city #police brutality

[nando161mando]

One Year Since Tortuguita's Killing: A Reflection on our Coverage of the movement against 'cop city'

#tortuguita #atlanta #stop cop city #stopcopcity #unicornriot #class war #usa news #usa #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #american #america #native american #all cops are bastards #all cops are bad #ftp #1312 #acab1312 #acab #anti cop #anti police #murder #genocide #fuck the police #fuck the cops #police state #police #cops #cop

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Cop City: Racist police terror continues in Atlanta

By Lev Koufax

On Jan. 18, police and officials demonstrated just how far they would go to secure the Cop City site for what is really a domestic military base. In short, they would kill to do so.

That day, a Georgia State Trooper executed a queer environmental activist of color, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (known by the nickname Tortuguita.)

#StopCopCity #JailKillerCops #Atlanta #Georgia #protest #Tortuguita #martyr #lgbtq #environmentalism #police brutality #repression #arrests #JusticeForRayshardBrooks #BlackLivesMatter #Struggle La Lucha

[tieflingkisser]

A second autopsy of an environmental activist who was shot and killed by the Georgia State Patrol on Jan. 18 shows their hands were raised when they were killed, lawyers for their family say. The full autopsy report will be released at a press conference Monday.

The 26-year-old protester, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, was killed in an Atlanta-area forest while police cleared an encampment of activists who oppose the construction of Atlanta's "Cop City" — or Public Training Safety Facility. Terán went by Tortuguita.

"Both Manuel's left and right hands show exit wounds in both palms. The autopsy further reveals that Manuel was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged when killed," lawyers said in a press release.

Last month, Tortuguita's family said they were shot at least a dozen times.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says officers killed Tortuguita in self-defense after they shot a state trooper, but the City of Atlanta released videos in which an officer suggests the trooper may have been injured by friendly fire.

(keep reading)

#tortuguita #cop city #stop cop city #police violence #georgia #news #usa #acab

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Extrajudicial killings are just something we tolerate now.

[reasoningdaily]

In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him

Fam,

Ten years ago, a Florida jury acquitted vigilante George Zimmerman for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. It was 2013, and the Dream Defenders, a Florida-based community group formed to vindicate Trayvon, occupied the Florida State Capitol for 30 nights and 31 days, demanding a repeal of Zimmerman’s winning defense, the controversial Stand Your Ground law.  A decade later, the community group is a powerful organization within the M4BL ecosystem, still organizing and combating fascist policies like the so-called “Stop W.O.K.E” bill introduced by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which bans school curricula that explain the workings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and power in our society.

DeSantis’ motive is to defang the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and adjacent left movements whose organizing yielded material wins on racial justice and police reform in the 2010s. But today’s Black liberation organizations are not intimidated.

Since Trayvon’s death, millions of ordinary people have organized to vindicate him and others like him. 

Our movement has been building and harnessing political power at the ballot box and on the local, state, and federal levels, growing support for investing in what our communities need to thrive and divesting from the systems that are causing us harm.

Vigilante and police violence still persist, and until these systems are dismantled, our communities remain under threat. This year, police killed Anthony Lowe, a 36-year-old double amputee in a wheelchair. They also killed 26-year-old Manuel "Tortuguita" Esteban Paez Terán, a forest defender in the fight against Cop City.

In May, a vigilante choked 30-year-old street performer Jordan Neely to death on the New York City Subway.

Our movement's work is more important than ever. Today, Dream Defenders has expanded their organizing to Oklahoma, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. Earlier this year in Florida, where the group started, activists occupied Ron DeSantis’ office to demand an end to the vicious attacks on queer and transgender communities. 

What most people get wrong about deeply rooted social movements is that even under the threat of ongoing attacks and erasure, they provide a meaningful and consistent entryway for disillusioned people who want to see justice and material change to plug into. People join us to be a part of something and work for real change in their lives and communities. They join us to feel like they can do something about it. This people-power keeps our movements constantly growing, relevant, and threatening to the status quo of power and privilege. We will keep on, and until our dreams are realized, until our children and all our people are safe from these harms, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him,

Movement for Black Lives

Movement for Black Lives 1624 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94612 United States

Visit us at M4BL.org

#trayvon martin #Movement for Black Lives #MBL #Black LIves Matter #In beloved memory of Trayvon and in honor of all who love him

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

So the cops are killing environmental activists in the US now. I haven’t seen it discussed on here but one of the activists who had been participating in protests and camp-ins to prevent the construction of a “cop city” (police training ground with a shooting range, mock city, and burn building) in what is currently a forest outside of Atlanta has been killed by the police. Important to note is that the activist, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, was Latino. The construction of the cop city is environmental racism in action-- most of the people who live around the forest are POC-- and now it looks like the cops are cutting right to the chase so they can build a place where they can practice killing more people

#stop cop city #environmental #actvism #acab #i don't usually make original posts about this kind of thing but this needs to be talked about

[gwydionmisha]

#Atlanta Police #Environmental Activists #Police Murder #Manuel Esteban Paez Terán #News

[female-malice]

#cc

[criptochecca]

From the Atlanta City Council voting to fund Cop City to Biden ending the pause on student loan payments, forcing tighter restrictions to receive food assistance, and proudly participating in a genocide... where is the harm reduction ? It’s left-wing activists and other dissidents, like Atlanta’s Cop City protesters, who are now facing repression and domestic terrorism charges.

Documents obtained through GORA have recently revealed Atlanta officials’ communications with the Biden administration over the past year, who have indicated that Cop City is “exemplary of what President Biden would like to see other municipalities emulate”, despite the murder of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a Venezuelan environmental activist, and continuously escalating indiscriminate state repression against the movement at large. Biden and the Democratic party at large want Cop City everywhere because their response to the George Floyd protests has been more policing, more violence and more systematic state repression against political dissidents. For all the conspiracy theories claiming that Biden had “quietly” pardoned thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2021, Biden’s Department of Justice has doubled down in a determined fashion on an inquisitorial strategy of counterinsurgency in the name of counterterrorism. Over the course of the Biden presidency, the DOJ has prosecuted Trump-era protest “crimes” with vigor and enthusiasm, while federal prosecutors have expanded the use of terrorism sentencing enhancements, delivering dozens of political prisoners to the doorstep of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

No but you don't understand, if Trump wins he's gonna drop the biochemical weapon that only kills gay people on north american soil

[post-leffert]

Captive Comrade D. Chatzivasileiadis: 31/7/16 Attack on the Mexican Embassy – 1/8/23 Lorenzo Cruz Ríos, the Fight for Land and Freedom Continues

On the 31st of July 2016, the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defence used weapons to attack the Mexican embassy in Athens, shooting rounds at the embassy building. This second political intervention of Org. Revolutionary Self-Defence revealed that the first intervention two years ago, against the law for type C prisons and the war against the proletariat and migration was not an occasional act, even though it was an emergency response to the need to resist an antirevolutionary measure, but a practical statement of commitment to a strategy of revolutionary fight. Revolutionary internationalism remains a need from the future world that we have to take care of through acts. Seven years after the immediate response of Org. Revolutionary Self-Defence against the Μexican state, my thoughts are with Lorenzo Froylán de la Cruz Ríos, member of the native Communal Guard self-defense team of Santa María Ostula in Michoacán, who disappeared on the 1st of August and was found murdered ten days later, my thoughts are with the social struggles in the mexican territory, the zapatistas resistance against the “Maya” train and the para-state murders of fighters, the movement against the inter-oceanic corridor[1], the movement against the Nicaragua canal, the indigenous people rebellion in Puno[2] and the fighting Indigenous Association for Development and Conservation of Bajo Puinahua (Aidecobap)[3], the fighting communities of Sucre Colombia[4], the fights for Land and freedom everywhere jointly.

The spark of the revolution does not quiet down, for Froylán de la Cruz Ríos[5], for Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán (Atlanta forest, USA, Stop Cop City, January 2023), for Paolo Todd – Kawa Ahmed[6] (from the indigenous fight at Standing Rock of N. Dakota to Raqqa Syria, January 2017), for Santiago Maldonado (Argentina, 2017), for Remi Fraisse (forest de Sivens, Testet wetlands, France, October 2014), for mapuche brothers and Matías Catrileo[7] (January 2008), for the martyred people’s armies of Kurdistan, for Vassilis Magos (Volos, 2020), for Maria Koulouri (Lefkimmi Corfu, 2008). For all of us until the end of capitalism.

[1] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/31/civilian-observation-mission-records-human-rights-violations-in-the-context-of-the-isthmus-interoceanic-corridor-megaproject/

[2] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/08/six-peruvian-soldiers-drown-while-fleeing-from-protesters/

[3] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/23/two-oil-tankers-stormed-by-indigenous-militants-in-loreto-peru/

[4] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/10/rural-people-in-colombia-push-back-against-energy-companies/

[5] https://twitter.com/VIM_Media/status/1689891820723965954

[6]https://anfenglish.com/features/martyr-paolo-todd-a-struggle-story-from-standing-rock-to-raqqa-68745

[7] https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1623077/

#Mexico #anarchy #anarchism #praxis #Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense #Greece

[so-much-for-subtlety]

A quick summary:

Atlanta Police want to spend $90M to turn 85-acre urban forest into a training facility for police. Because it will include shooting range and model city it’s been called “Cop City”

The project does not have great community support, and starting late 2021 the forest had been defended with activists.

Manuel Esteban Paez Terán (also known as Tortuguita and Tort) was part of an activist group at an encampment at the site protesting the development. They are also non-binary.

On January 18, 2023 police raided the site, and claiming that Tort fired and shot an officer, police fired on Tort killing them.

On February 19, body camera footage was released where officers are heard making statements that suggest the officer was hit from friendly fire. Atlanta police deny this and continue to claim Tort fired first.

Autopsy results show that Tort was shot 13 times, including in both hands suggesting that he was shot with his hands raised in surrender and not (as claimed) using a firearm.

#tort #tortuguita #stop cop city

[projectourworld]

Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a brave environmentalist known as Tortuguita was shot and killed by the police on January 18 as he encamped in a forest he and other activists have been trying to defend from being razed and turned into an enormous $90m “urban warfare” style police academy. This tragedy is an obscene escalation in the decades long war the United States has been waging on climate activists. Source : Guardian Newspaper #timeforchange