The Florida Bar Association has said it is investigating a lawyer who was part of a group of activists that attacked the site of a planned police training center in Atlanta on March 5 and were subsequently arrested.
Thomas Webb Jurgens, a 28-year-old employee at the nonprofit legal advocacy organization, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), was among 23 people arrested on charges of domestic terrorism following the demonstration at the 85-acre police and fire training facility currently under construction.
Activists have been protesting—often peacefully—at the site that they have dubbed “Cop City” for months.
However, Sunday’s demonstrations quickly turned violent, with some of the activists throwing Molotov cocktails at officers, setting fire to construction equipment, and vandalizing the area….