A forest defender/activist with the stop cop city movement. They were slaughtered by police. They were shot a dozen times with their hands up.
Georgia state troopers lied and claimed that Tortugita had fired on the cops, but a bodycam video has a cop say that he thinks it was friendly fire, and an independent autopsy saw no indication of them having fired a gun.
A forest defender/activist with the stop cop city movement. They were slaughtered by police. They were shot a dozen times with their hands up.
Georgia state troopers lied and claimed that Tortugita had fired on the cops, but a bodycam video has a cop say that he thinks it was friendly fire, and an independent autopsy saw no indication of them having fired a gun.
Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/1162843992/cop-city-atlanta-activist-autopsy
https://itsgoingdown.org/independent-autopsy-reveals-tortuguita-killed-while-seated-with-hands-raised/