An environmental activist died after raising hands and being shot from head to toe by police nearly two months ago near Atlanta, the person's family and attorneys said Monday.
The activist known as Tortuguita, whose full name is Manuel Esteban Pez Tern, suffered 14 gunshot wounds on Jan. 18, family attorneys said.
Tortuguita, 26, was at a peaceful protest and occupation of the South River Forest when gunfire erupted, loved ones have said.
The autopsy, conducted by a former state medical examiner, Dr. Kris Sperry, showed the fatal wound was a shot through Tortuguita's right eye, along with other wounds to the left upper chest, abdomen, arms and leg, lawyers said.
The GBI claims that Tortuguita shot and injured a state trooper before officers returned fire.
Forensic ballistic analysis has confirmed that the projectile recovered from the troopers wound matches Terans handgun.
Cops spent all of the summer of 2020 responding to protests against police brutality with barbaric brutality without repercussions. Of course theyre going to response to protests against murder city with murder.This literally wasn't even a police protest. They were protesting the destruction of a forest to build a cop training area. They didn't care about the cop training area itself only that it was causing a forest to be destroyed.