DeKalb County charged fourteen people over the last couple months with domestic terrorism for their involvement in protests at the site of Atlanta’s proposed public safety training facility.
It’s a rare charge for the county – these charges are the first time the DeKalb County District Attorney brought domestic terrorism cases in at least the last decade.
The first arrests were in December – they were of protestors who lived in the forest and cleared out during a multi-agency operation.
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