This week, 23 more activists in the ongoing Atlanta, Georgia struggle now face domestic terrorism charges, and the cop's reasoning seems especially thin.
In the arrest warrants, referenced by defense attorney Eli Bennet during a Tuesday hearing, police cited the mud present on some of the defendants’ footwear as evidence that they had been involved in vandalism and arson more than a mile away from the site of the arrests, per
. The warrants also referenced defendants having phone numbers written on their arms and that a few of them allegedly carried shields.The probable cause stated in the warrants against the activists is extremely weak. Police cited arrestees having mud on their shoes — in a forest. The warrants alleged they had written a legal support phone number on their arms, as is common during mass protests.
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