Reps. Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib co-wrote a column about the “cop city” protests in Atlanta which appeared in The Nation, a far-left whackadoo site. In their story, they accuse Georgia of committing murder after they shot and killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán. The two inane Reps made that accusation against the police after they shot Teran, who had shot a Georgia state trooper who had to undergo emergency surgery to save his life.
Here is their description of the incident:
What started out as a local fight over a $90 million, 85-acre militarized police base in the Weelaunee Forest near Atlanta, known as “Cop City,” has turned into one of the most extreme cases of government overreach, oppression, and violence in recent years. City and state officials are covering up the police killing of a protester and waging a chilling assault on the right to protest that risks setting a dangerous precedent.
In January, heavily militarized Georgia State Patrol officers shot and killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán, a nonviolent activist protesting in the local forest that Cop City would destroy, in a hail of 57 bullets. In the immediate aftermath of their killing, law enforcement claimed that Tortuguita possessed a firearm and fired first. This was a lie. Body camera footage suggests one officer shot another, and autopsies showed Tortuguita had their arms raised and no gunpowder residue on their hands when they were killed.
This is the first time I have heard of someone shooting a state trooper described as non-violent. Out of curiosity, I would like to know how many people each year are shot by non-violent protesters. I think it must be very rare. A gun was found after Teran was shot and ballistics show it is the same gun used to shoot the unidentified state trooper. The gun was traced and nit turns out the gun was purchased by Teran.
Bush and Tliab adds more lies to their description of the events:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELA newly released photograph of a gun is the weapon state investigators say was used by a protester camped near the so-called “Cop City” training facility site to shoot a Georgia State Patrol trooper on Wednesday. That protester was shot and killed by other officers on a task force assigned to sweep and clear the woods.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran was the person who pulled the trigger of that gun. Investigators say a forensic ballistic analysis confirms the remains of the bullet pulled from the trooper’s body during surgery on Wednesday afternoon was fired from the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm recovered at the scene.
According to them, an autopsy was commissioned by Teran’s family and it was confirmed that he had his hands up at the time. The man who did the autopsy was Dr. Kris L. Sperry, the GBI’s former chief medical examiner who retired after it was learned he had bilked the city7 for a large amount of money. He would contract to do an autopsy privately and would then bill the city for his time doing the private autopsy. It is also believed that he tailors his autopsies to fit whatever narrative those who hire him want. He has done over 500 such autopsies in the private sector.
The Teran family autopsy was performed by Dr. Kris L. Sperry, the GBI’s former chief medical examiner who in 2015 retired abruptly after an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found he had claimed hundreds of work hours at the GBI when he actually was working for clients of his forensic-science consulting firm. The AJC found Sperry had taken on more than 500 cases as a paid forensic expert, and that his moonlighting had created conflicts of interest and undermined his scientific and medical judgment.
The AJC investigation of Sperry examined court filings, depositions and trial transcripts from more than five dozen of his private cases. Time after time, lawyers and other adversaries accused Sperry of tailoring conclusions to suit his paying customers…
“At some point during the course of being shot, the decedent was able to raise his hands and arms up and in front of his body, with his palms facing towards his upper body,” the autopsy says…
While the autopsy suggests Teran’s hands were raised, it is not clear when they were raised and how high. The autopsy doesn’t conclude whether Terans hands were raised above the head in a position of surrender or whether the hands were in a lower, defensive position after being shot.
