"Three Stop Cop City activists had their felony charges dismissed today, just two months after Attorney General Chris Carr filed new charges against them, four years after their arrest, in what supporters called a politically motivated indictment. Cobb County District Court Judge Robert E. Flournoy III dismissed the charges today in a pretrial motions hearing, based on due process violations by Carr’s office. Hannah Kass, Katie Kloth, and Tyler Norman, called the “Cobb County 3” by supporters, were indicted on April 24 on State charges of felony property damage and arson of lands, stemming from arrests that occurred in May 2022.
Today’s dismissal comes a week after the US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia filed a federal indictment against Kloth and Norman. Federal charges of arson and intimidation were levied by the US Attorney’s Office last Tuesday, related to the same May 2022 demonstration at the headquarters of Brasfield and Gorrie, general contractor for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, widely known as “Cop City.” The Department of Justice has tied the federal indictment to the National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, a controversial law enforcement directive introduced by the Trump Administration that has been described by critics as a “declaration of war on anybody who does not support the Trump Administration or its agenda.”
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