Twitter suspends account calling for 'night of rage' after protester shoots at police and is killed

Twitter has suspended an account that called for violence against Georgia police officers and law enforcement after a police-involved shooting on Wednesday that left a state trooper wounded and one man dead. The Twitter account Scenes from the Atlanta Forest had called for a “Night of Rage” on Friday to enact “reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies.” The violent threat, posted in a tweet, came after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said that law enforcement had shot and killed a protester who had shot at a state trooper on Wednesday morning.By Thursday, the account had been suspended for violating Twitter rules.  The shooting incident happened Wednesday, as police were clearing demonstrators from a wooded area where a planned $90 million Atlanta Police Department (APD) facility will be constructed. GBI said that multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the “operation” to “identify people who are trespassing and committing other crimes on the property.”  ATLANTA: PROTESTERS CALL FOR ‘VIOLENCE’ AGAINST POLICE AFTER SHOOTING LEAVES 1 DEAD, OFFICER INJURED Georgia state troopers stand with a DeKalb, Georgia, police officer on Constitution and International Park in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023.  (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
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