Opinion

Why Do Left-Wing Protesters Keep Getting Killed by Police?

THERE’S A PATTERN

The killing of an activist in Georgia highlights the disparity of state violence inflicted on progressives, and not toward far-right and racist demonstrators.

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On Jan. 18, a small army of Georgia state troopers entered Atlanta’s Weelaunee forest, long guns drawn, to end a months-long occupation by a group of “forest defenders”—and to clear the way for the urban warfare training camp known as “Cop City.”

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