ATLANTA, Ga. (TBC Atlanta) – Tensions between police officers and activists remain at a high level after hundreds of people held a vigil for an alleged Hispanic protester killed in a shootout with officers in riot gear. in the place where a new police training center will be erected.
Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, 26, was shot to death Wednesday on land near Constitution Road and Bouldercrest Road, off Moreland Avenue.
In the place, the activists against the facilities popularly known as “Cop City”, arrived on Friday night with candles and flowers in memory of Páez Terán, and one of them left the shell of a turtle, in memory of the nickname with which many knew the young Hispanic, “tortuguita”.
The protest actions will continue this Saturday afternoon, with an act at five in the afternoon at the Atlanta Underground.
According to the authorities’ report, the agents were carrying out an eviction in the area when Páez Terán, who was inside a tent, shot an agent in the stomach and the rest fired back.
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Authorities uphold that version of events, despite having no body camera recordings from any of their officers to confirm it.
This is due to the fact that, as they explained, most of them do not wear body cameras, since they generally carry out surveillance work in their patrol cars, in which they use the cameras of their vehicles.
Since there were no vehicles near the area that they could have searched.
The Atlanta Police Department announced that it is on high alert for possible outbreaks of violence after the death of Páez Terán, after a series of threats in this regard.
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