DeKalb County, GA — Three months after Georgia State Patrol officers shot Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán, killing the 26-year-old environmental and human rights advocate, the DeKalb County medical examiner released their autopsy results. In the 34-page report, Dr. Gerald T. Gowitt, the chief medical…
Decatur, GA – The family of Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán held a press conference Monday morning outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse to release the full autopsy of Tortuguita and to discuss the lawsuit the family filed this week against the City of Atlanta under…
In the days following the police killing of Manuel Terán (Tort/Tortuguita) in the Atlanta Forest, solidarity actions occurred in cities throughout the country. Tort was shot and killed on Wednesday, Jan. 18 during a large police operation to evict activists camped in the forest (forest…