Georgia Attorney General's office indicted three Stop Cop City activists 47 months after a 2022 protest

On April 23, 2026, a Cobb County grand jury returned an indictment against three activists tied to the Stop Cop City movement — Dr. Hannah Kass, Tyler Norman, and a third defendant, together known by supporters as the "Cobb County 3" — over conduct arising from a protest in May 2022, roughly 47 months earlier. The prosecution was brought by the office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, whose office had previously charged the same underlying conduct as part of a sweeping racketeering case in Fulton County.

That Fulton County RICO prosecution was dismissed in December 2025. According to defense attorneys, prosecutors acknowledged in a June 17, 2026 pretrial hearing that they chose to seek the separate Cobb County indictment only after the Fulton case collapsed, reviving charges over the same 2022 events in a new venue rather than letting the matter rest.

The Cobb County charges arose from a protest connected to the long-running campaign against the Atlanta public-safety training center that opponents call "Cop City." The defendants had been arrested at the time of the 2022 protest, but no indictment was sought in Cobb County until nearly four years later, after the related racketeering theory had failed in another county.

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2026-06-22 — Cobb County judge dismissed all charges as a due-process violation [1]

On June 22, 2026, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert Flournoy III dismissed the charges in an order finding that the state's 47-month delay in seeking the indictment "was the result of prosecutorial action attempting to give the State a tactical advantage" and violated the defendants' constitutional due process rights. The Attorney General's office said it would appeal.