Money laundering charges dropped against 3 ‘Cop City’ activists
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An audience filled with demonstrators against the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility chanted "You dropped the ball," while hurling ping pong balls during an Atlanta City Council meeting. Georgia prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all 15 counts of money laundering that were levied against three Atlanta organizers accused of misusing a bail fund to aid violent protests against the city’s proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Atlanta Solidarity Fund leaders Marlon Kautz, Adele MacLean and Savannah Patterson still face racketeering charges, along with 58 others who were indicted last year following a years-long investigation into the "Stop Cop City" movement. Prosecutors have portrayed the decentralized movement as being led by "militant anarchists" hell-bent on radicalizing supporters and halting the construction of the facility by any means necessary, including arson. At the center of the case is the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which has provided bail money and helped find attorneys for arrested protesters.