A special prosecutor will not charge the six Georgia State Patrol troopers who shot and killed an environmental protestor at the proposed site for the controversial Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
After months of investigating, the Stone Mountain Circuit District Attorney’s Office says the troopers' use of lethal force was "objectively reasonable under the circumstances of the case.".
In their report, officials say the troopers spoke with Tortuguita, who refused to leave and zipped up the tent in which they were living.
Word that the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit DA will not file charges against the six state troopers who shot and killed reached the 26-year-old's mother.
The autopsy further reveals that Manuel was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged when killed," the family’s attorney expressed in March.
The GBI says this was the gun Manuel Esteban Paez Teran used to shoot a Georgia State Patrol trooper during a raid near the "Cop City" Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
Georgia prosecutors indicted 61 people on RICO charges in connection with protests, calling the defendants "militant anarchists" who are accused of committing arson and damaging property in metro Atlanta. »
