Read this account of the police illegally trespassing onto private property and violently beating and apprehending individuals who were protesting a recent police killing of a black man named Alton Sterling.
It happened in my city and and several of my friends were there, beaten by police and arrested. I was not around at the time or I'd have been there as well, and likely shot and killed.
> Police alleged that Sterling had reached for the loaded handgun in his pants pocket ... The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling had started carrying a gun a few days prior to the event as other CD vendors had been robbed recently. He also said that Sterling was "not the one causing trouble" during the situation that led to the police being called.
I personally had an incident that led to almost a dozen police officers pointing their guns at me and detaining me just for visiting a convenience store that had recently been robbed. I shudder to think about what would have occurred if I were black.
Separate events. Some of the people under surveillance for attending Stop Cop City had simply attended study groups. They don't have to be students, or even study groups at a school. This also includes people who attended meetings with Stop Cop City on the agenda. So you could have gone to a neighborhood meeting with four items on the agenda including Stop Cop City and a new parking zone in front of your house and been on the local PD homeland security watchlist as a suspected political opponent.
If the Wikipedia article is the whole story, you are correct. That said, as I noted in another comment [1], it appears to be badly sourced.
Do we have any primary evidence? Presumably there are charge sheets and statements from the university and cops, too.
> people that went to study groups
The Guardian article quotes the university claiming that the protesters were trespassers and not students [2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188054
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/emory-univer...