Manuel Paez Terán, known as ‘Tortuguita’ was isolated and alone as police shot him dead – and his family and friends say the full story is being kept from them
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged,
Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged.
Prosecutors said that the protester, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, posed an “immediate threat” to state troopers who were trying to clear activists from a forest where a police training center was being built.
A prosecutor announced Friday that he will not charge Georgia state troopers for their fatal shooting of an environmental activist. Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Christian said the troopers’ employment of deadly force against Manuel Paez Terán, 26, was “objectively reasonable.” Christian made his decision known through a news release and also released a…