A woman has sued an Atlanta police officer for allegedly leaving her breasts exposed while taking her from her house to a squad car – where she sat several hours, topless, while officers stopped and looked at her, with one masked officer opening the car door to take a photo.
The incident took place during a pre-dawn, Swat-style raid staged by Atlanta police and agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (or ATF), on 8 February 2024. The agents sought evidence related to the arson of police motorcycles and cars, carried out in opposition to a controversial police training center known as “Cop City”, which has attracted local, national and internet media attention.
The raid – including the woman’s experience of being left topless for hours – was reported on by the Guardian at the time. The lawsuit, filed 23 May by Atlanta-area attorneys Jeff Filipovits and Wingo F Smith, asserts that the woman’s fourth amendment rights protecting her against unreasonable seizure were violated during the raid and draws on details laid out in the Guardian’s story.
This may have been one of the more humiliating instances, but not even close to the most egregious move by the city/state against cop city protestors. And the state attorney general (looking to make a name for himself for a gubernatorial run) has obliterated any semblance of the fourth amendment in the state. He’s stated not having your cell phone with you at a protest is an arrestable offense, and is going after bail funds.
Not to mention the state police murdered one of the climate activists, and covered it up with the help of the GBI.
Georgia fucking sucks. The GOP is setting up a Desantis/Abbott style fiefdom, and the state Democrats (notoriously indistinguishable from the state’s GOP) are helping them do it.
Cop behavior
This article states allegedly, while other articles state that Luigi is a CEO killer.
Atlanta is the city where their SWAT killed a baby by breaking down someone’s door and throwing a flash bang into the baby’s crib during a no knock raid, right?
