Seven people who were protesting the construction of an 82-acre police training facility in Georgia have been charged with domestic terrorism after a shootout with law enforcement officials trying to clear the land left one dead, CNN reports.
Protestors hope to protect the forest that would be destroyed to make room for what they’ve dubbed “Cop City,” the $90 million facility. Activists with a group called “Stop Cop City” say officers aimed guns into wooded areas where protesters had spread out. Police say they were fired upon from the woods. Police were sweeping the woods where the facility would be built in an effort to rid it of protestors’ campsites, spread out across the location. Police report removing more than two dozen campsites.