Police Raid Atlanta Forest After ‘Cop City’ Opponents Overrun Security Post

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Earlier in the evening, a march of several hundred opponents of the project (generally known as ‘forest defenders’) took over a police surveillance outpost along a power line clearing near Intrenchment Creek.
The crowd set off fireworks and threw other projectiles over the barbed wire fence of the outpost, causing the police to retreat.
Barricades of tires and other debris were set up at the outpost entrance and two UTVs, a Front End Loader, office trailer, and mobile surveillance tower were destroyed and set on fire. Several port-a-potties were tipped and barbed wire fences bent, twisted and rendered insecure.
NEW: [Video] Hundreds of #CopCity Opponents Overrun a Police Surveillance Outpost in the South River Forest

Of those arrested last night, 22 were charged with state-level domestic terrorism.

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