Sixty-one activists opposed to Atlanta’s slated “Cop City” police training facility have been handed racketeering charges following a months-long battle between protestors and law enforcement officials that resulted in numerous demonstrations and the death of one environmental activist.

Some demonstrators were also charged with domestic terrorism, attempted arson and 15 counts of money laundering, a Fulton County Grand Jury found Tuesday.

The development follows an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Department of Public Safety and Atlanta Police Department. The case was taken to the Grand Jury on Aug. 29.

State Attorney General Chris Carr’s office charged demonstrators under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as the RICO Act. The law has made national headlines recently. Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies were changed under it for their alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.

Defendants in the case are all members of Defend the Atlanta Forest, a group opposed to the project. The center, which is under construction, is set to cost taxpayers $90 million.

Carr referred to the group as an “anarchist, anti-police and anti-business extremist organization” that subscribes “to a philosophy of anarchy,” although anarchy isn’t inherently illegal.

Some of the evidence presented in the indictment includes using the acronym “acab”, transferring $40 for radio communications and camp fuel and a $50 reimbursement for community meals.

Carr said authorities recorded 225 incidents in which demonstrators prevented the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the designated name for “Cop City.” They included throwing molotov cocktails, fireworks and rocks at police.

The majority of those indicted Carr said were not from Georgia. One individual was from another country.

The indictment cites two incidents in which activists allegedly used molotov cocktails. In one, authorities claim explosives were thrown inside the Georgia Department of Public Safety’s headquarters. In another, officials claim the explosives were thrown at law enforcement officers.

The Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a group that supports demonstrators that have been arrested took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to respond to the news Tuesday afternoon.

“As if domestic terrorism charges weren’t enough — or the arrests of bail funds organizers, or activists putting up flyers — this move seeks to paint the broad spectrum of community members opposed to the Cop City project as conspirators in a vast criminal enterprise.”

It’s not the first time activists have been charged with connection with opposing the project’s construction plans. In December, five people were handed domestic terrorism charges among other charges after police said activists threw rocks at police cars and attacked emergency medical technicians following a joint operation on the site.

In March, 23 people were arrested on domestic terrorism charges at the site after an “attack,” police said, that included allegedly vandalizing construction equipment and throwing things at police officers.

The controversy surrounding the training center came to a head in January after 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as “Tortuguita,” was shot 57 times and ultimately killed by an officer. Authorities claim Terán shot and wounded a Georgia state trooper seconds before his death.

Despite the indictment, activists expect to prevail in the litigation process.

“We know these charges will not hold up in court, and we know that they are not intended to: the point is to shut down the social movement currently taking place in Atlanta and to send a message that anyone advocating for social change could be a target,” the Solidarity Fund’s statement continued.