Five people arrested on charges including domestic terrorism as authorities tried to remove the protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center will remain in custody without bond, a prosecutor said Thursday.
The arrests happened as agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Atlanta police officers, and other state and local law enforcement officers removed barricades blocking some entrances to the site, the GBI said in a news release.
The five people arrested had their first court appearance on Thursday, and DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said in a news release that they will remain in custody. They range in age from 20 to 25, and only one is a Georgia resident, according to the release.
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