The Details of the Atlanta Bail Fund Arrest Are More Horrific Than First Described
The Details of the Atlanta Bail Fund Arrest Are More Horrific Than First Described
In what is a first in recent memory, prosecutors are openly charging people with felonies simply for being organizers within a bail collective.
Early on Wednesday morning, police officers from the Atlanta Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation raided the Teardown House, a hub for a constellation of organizing activity in East Atlanta. At least a dozen officers in riot gear, wielding assault rifles, arrested three organizers from the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a nonprofit that supports people who are arrested for protest or activism. The Solidarity Fund pays bail, provides jail support, and refers people who have been arrested to available lawyers. In other words, the Solidarity Fund connects people who are still presumed innocent to things that they are legally entitled to: the ability to have others pay their bail and a lawyer to represent them in court.