Ayla King is the first of 61 defendants set to go to trial in Georgia's sweeping indictment connected to protests of the public safety training site activists have nicknamed "Cop City."
On Monday, hundreds of people marched to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training center in Atlanta. The site, which has been infamously dubbed as Cop City, is located outside Atlanta city limits in DeKalb County.
Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering charges related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta appeared in court on Monday as their supporters rallied outside the courthouse. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr obtained a sweeping indictment in August, using the state's anti-racketeering law to target the protesters and characterizing them as ”militant anarchists." Demonstrators and civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Li