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. Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Christian said Friday that he found that the troopers' use of deadly force was “objectively reasonable.” Christian was appointed to review the Georgia Bureau of Investigation file on the Jan. 18 shooting of Manuel Paez Terán after DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston recused herself from the case. The troopers who fired on Paez Terán were not wearing body cameras, and Paez Terán’s family and other activists have expressed skepticism from the start about law enforcement statements about the shooting.
