‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
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#2From the other side of the story:
https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-20/gbi-invest...
>UPDATE > > Atlanta, GA (January 20, 2023) – We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The handgun is described as a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm. Forensic ballistic analysis has confirmed that the projectile recovered from the trooper’s wound matches Teran’s handgun. Other preliminary information released in this case is consistent with the investigation so far.
Re: ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
#3how many will have to die?
Re: ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
#4Teran shot a state trooper immediately before he was shot. I'd say his shooting was justified.
Re: ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
#5From the other side of the story: https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-20/gbi-invest... >UPDATE > > Atlanta, GA (January 20, 2023) – We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The handgun is described as a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm. F…
This doesn't materially conflict the statement in the article, which links to that press release: the police have provided no evidence that the victim short first. As TFA points out, there is conveniently no police bodycam footage.
Re: ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
#6From the other side of the story: https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-20/gbi-invest... >UPDATE > > Atlanta, GA (January 20, 2023) – We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The handgun is described as a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm. F…
This doesn't materially conflict the statement in the article, which links to that press release: the police have provided no evidence that the victim short first. As TFA points out, there is conveniently no police bodycam footage.
There isn't any bodycam footage, but I find it extremely hard to believe that Teran managed to shoot a police officer after he had been shot several times.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This doesn't materially conflict the statement in the article, which links to that press release: the police have provided no evidence that the victim short first. As TFA points out, there is conveniently no police bodycam footage.
There isn't any bodycam footage, but I find it extremely hard to believe that Teran managed to shoot a police officer after he had been shot several times.
You've reduced it down to a single scenario, but that's one of many: it seems just as plausible that the police shot at him, he shot back, and then they hit him multiple times.
It also seems plausible (although less likely) that his gun was fired by someone else. Either way, the important fact is that we do not know more because there is no bodycam footage.
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#8Teran shot a state trooper immediately before he was shot. I'd say his shooting was justified.
Are you basing that assessment on any specific evidence? This article claim there is no video of the incident.
Law enforcement in the US (and many other countries, including others where environmental protesters are often killed) has been know and documented to lie routinely, so is not a reliable source to take on face value.
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#9It was not an assassination, only an assassination attempt; the trooper has survived being shot by the domestic terrorist.
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#10From the other side of the story: https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-20/gbi-invest... >UPDATE > > Atlanta, GA (January 20, 2023) – We are releasing a photo of the handgun that was in Manuel Esteban Paez Teran’s possession when a Georgia State Patrol trooper was shot on January 18 at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The handgun is described as a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm. F…
I basically stopped reading the original article here:
>>Officials say Manuel shot first at a state trooper “without warning” and an officer or officers returned fire, but they have produced no evidence for the claim.
Except of course…for the trooper with the bullet wound in the hospital that is communicated in the very next sentence…
>>The trooper was described as stable and in hospital Thursday.
How does this story get past an editor?