Seeking to protect their taxpayer-funded cash cow, Cop City, Atlanta police have arrested three legal support organizers, charging them with "money laundering" and "charity fraud."

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This marks a new low for Atlanta police and prosecutors in their descent into totalitarian tactics. Since December, they have pressed trumped-up terrorism charges against practically every defendant they have arrested. Now, in order to ensure that defendants in the movement to protect the forest cannot get proper legal support, they are attacking those who organize legal defense and raise bail.

Police and prosecutors pressing trumped-up charges against defendants is nothing new. Hundreds of people arrested at random at Trump's inauguration were charged with eight identical felonies, including two that were not even on the books as a legitimate charge. Ultimately, all of those who went to trial were declared innocent, prosecutors were forced to drop the charges against over a hundred defendants, and a judge threw out the rest. But it might have ended differently if those who coordinated legal support for those arrestees had themselves been subject to trumped-up charges.

Now, Atlanta police want arrestees to be defenseless in the face of their blatant miscarriage of justice.

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