How The RICO Charges Against Cop City Activists Can Impact Black Protest

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 8, 2023

On Tuesday, Chris Carr, Georgia’s Republican Attorney General, indicted 61 people under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act for protesting the “planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics all ‘Cop City,’” the Associated Press reports.

Carr’s office released a statement, which read in part, “Several of the defendants are also facing separate charges of Domestic

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