A judge in Georgia has again delayed the racketeering trial of a defendant indicted last summer in connection with protests against a planned Atlanta-area police and firefighter training facility.
Opening arguments had been expected Wednesday in the case against Ayla King, 19, of Massachusetts. King, who uses the pronouns they and them, is one of 61 people indicted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, knowns as RICO. King is the first defendant to stand trial.
State prosecutors have characterized those behind the “Stop Cop City” movement as a group of “militant anarchists” who have committed numerous violence and vandalism against authorities and contractors linked to the project.
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