‘This Has Never Happened in the U.S.’: Atlanta Forest Defender Shot and Killed By Police

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By Olivia RosaneJan 27, 2023, 7:11 pm170 pts
In a sobering first for the U.S., an environmental activist was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia, in an ongoing struggle over the future of a portion of that city’s urban forest. Twenty-six-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who went by “Tortuguita,” was shot and killed around 9:04 a.m.…

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