Atlanta is suffering a wave of riots. A leftist shot a cop. Mayor Andre Dickens said people are facing "domestic terrorism" charges. And as it turns out, these protestors are connected to the Democratic Party's political apparatus.
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Manuel Esteban Paez Teran was a 26-year-old activist who joined his friends in protesting a planned public safety training center—coined “Cop City” by critics—in Atlanta forestland. They camped out in the area to halt its construction. But they brought with them more than s’mores, sleeping bags, and Teran’s they/it pronouns.
On the morning of Jan. 18, officers attempting to clear the site of the future facility gave Teran verbal commands. He allegedly replied by shooting a Georgia State Patrol trooper and got himself killed in the ensuing exchange of fire. Police said in a statement that the projectile recovered from the trooper’s wound matched Teran’s Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm handgun. His death helped spark rioting that consumed downtown Atlanta in violence, but this wasn’t the first flare-up. Last year, these leftists hurled Molotov cocktails at officers and AT&T workers and attacked firefighters. In one incident, police stood with their backs turned to a fence when a flaming spirit flew over at them.
A handful of people have been arrested so far. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens even rebuked those insisting that the anti-police riots were, as they say, “mostly peaceful,” and said that six protestors face “domestic terrorism” charges. He noted that agitators “had explosives,” “burned down a police car,” and “broke windows at businesses.” Still, it all has the feel of Kabuki theatre. Dickens’ real dilemma is that his own party subsidizes and facilitates political violence.
Teran was connected to a movement called Defend the Atlanta Forest. In a tweet, the group indicated Teran was fond of cop-killer Assata Shakur.
The left-wing outlet Green Matters described Defend the Atlanta Forest as “decentralized, with no official leadership, spokespeople, or organization status in order to retain anonymity, and is made up of various individuals and groups.” That sounds pretty grassroots. But the group’s website shows that it is plugged into the Democratic Party’s broader organizational network.
Upon visiting the “Solidarity” page on Defend the Atlanta Forest’s website, visitors find a list of ways to show their support. “Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action,” the page states.
The Atlanta Solidarity Fund’s donations page shows that it is hosted by Action Network, an online platform that left-wing groups use to organize and fundraise. The fund states on the network’s page that it bails out “activists who are arrested for participating in social justice movements, and helps them get access to lawyers.”
But the Action Network’s main clients are scrappy upstarts like the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO, and Black Lives Matter. The front page of its website prominently displays the following advertisement: “After three months of using Action Network the DNC shattered all sorts of fundraising records.”
In short, the fundraising apparatus and political network designed to keep the people engaged in “domestic terrorism,” as Mayor Dicken’s said, out of jail is connected to the Democratic Party and its proxies.
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