Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged.

Police have arrested three key organizers supporting people protesting Atlanta's proposed police and fire training center, which opponents call “Cop City.”.

A slain protester's family says an environmental activist in Georgia was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air when they were fatally shot by a state trooper.

Newly released Atlanta police body camera video shows officers clearing tents from the site of a planned public safety training center and then reacting after they heard the barrage of gunfire that left an environmental activist dead and a state trooper injured.

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching the inmate in his cell.

The 2022 session of the Georgia General assembly saw some bright moments of bipartisan cooperating, including a mental health overhaul.

Georgia authorities say three officers were wounded when the passenger of a car shot them during a police chase that ended with one suspect killed and the other arrested.

DALTON, Ga. (AP) A Texas fugitive who fled into the woods in Georgia after shooting at an officer who pulled him over has been captured, authorities said. In that shooting, two days after the initial traffic stop, Potter shot a man on his property and the man fired back, authorities said. Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood had told reporters Wednesday that investigators had surrounded Potter, 29, northwest of the town. Potter, from Leakey, Texas, was wanted in Georgia on five counts of aggravated assault, and on Texas charges of larceny and theft of more than $2500. A second Texas man, Jonathan Hosmer, 47, was arrested Tuesday after surveillance video recorded him leaving the truck crash.

DALTON, Ga. A Texas fugitive wanted in the shooting of a Georgia sheriffs deputy was hauling explosives in a stolen trailer at the time of the shooting, state officials said Wednesday. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's bomb disposal unit will get rid of the explosives, the agency said. Dalton Potter is still being sought in the shooting of Whitfield County Sheriffs Deputy Darrell Hackney. Officers say Potter, 29, fired multiple times at Hackney in the shooting in Dalton, Georgia. The stolen trailer was found along the southbound lanes of I-75, near the Whitfield-Gordon county line, the agency said.

DALTON, Ga. Law officers have apprehended one of two Texas fugitives wanted after a Georgia deputy was shot during a traffic stop, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. Jonathan Hosmer, 47, is in custody, and Dalton Potter, 29, remains at large, the agency said in a statement. Dalton Potter (GBI)Hackney and another deputy returned fire, but Potter made his getaway by driving south on Interstate 75. Potter is facing a charge of aggravated assault on the deputy, GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said Monday afternoon. Jonathan Hosmer (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)Dalton is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta.

Nobody was injured by the gunshots in Waycross near the Georgia-Florida state line, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. The vehicle stopped and the three younger children got out and ran and the officer began to follow them. A car full of unarmed children,” Dominique Goodman Sr., who identified himself as the children’s father, told WJXT-TV. Goodman said the children were coming home from Walmart when an officer began following them in his patrol car. He said the younger children got out and tried to run home to alert him and he stepped outside after hearing them screaming.

ATLANTA Georgia authorities said Saturday a man was shot and killed in a late night struggle with Atlanta police outside a fast food restaurant after he failed a field sobriety test and resisted arrest. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was asked by the Atlanta Police Department to investigate the shooting, which happened at a Wendys restaurant late Friday. But he resisted and a struggle ensued, leading the officer to deploy a Taser. The GBI said witnesses saw the man grab the Taser away from the officer. It has also been reported that the male subject was shot by an officer in the struggle over the Taser, the GBI said in a statement.

The GBI identified the slain man as Rayshard Brooks, 27, of Atlanta, who was African American. An officer drew his Taser and, witnesses said, the man grabbed it, the statement said. I thought Atlanta was higher than thatAt the Wendy's in southeast Atlanta, Decatur Redd, who said he is a relative of Brooks, spoke with reporters and a crowd of people. "I thought Atlanta was higher than that. I thought Atlanta was bigger than that," Redd said.