More than 20 people in the United States are facing domestic terrorism charges after dozens wearing black masks attacked the site of a company training center under construction in an area outside Atlanta, where a protester was killed in January.

  The agency indicated that the site has become a point of collision in the ongoing struggle between the authorities and left-wing protesters who gather together and join to participate in protests against a series of issues, and among the issues they are protesting against are "individuals against the militarization of the police", and others targeting environmental protection, and some of these oppose companies and see They help fund the project through donations to a police foundation.

  Flaming bottles and rocks were thrown at officers during a protest Sunday in Cape City, where a 26-year-old environmental activist, Emmanuel Esteban Paez Teran (Totojita), was shot and killed by officers during a raid on a protest camp. last January. The police said he attacked them, an account that other activists have disputed.

   The Associated Press indicated that the 23 people who have been charged are from various US states, while one person is from Canada and another from France, according to the company.

  Like many of the protesters, Totojita was defending the protection of the environment, and his views clashed, according to what his family and friends do, with the hopes of the city of Atlanta to build a public training center for police safety at a cost of $ 90 million, which aims to enhance the readiness and morale of the police after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

  Source: The Seventh Day website