By Ryan Fatica
Atlanta, GA – About 30 supporters of John “Jack” Mazurek held a rally on the morning of Monday, March 4 that included speakers, a banner, and even a punk show performed on a downtown Atlanta sidewalk across the street from the Fulton County Courthouse.
The rally was held on the day of a scheduled bond hearing for Mazurek, who has been held in the Fulton County Jail for almost a month on first-degree arson charges associated with a fiery attack on eight police motorcycles at a south Atlanta police precinct in July 2023. Police have claimed that there is a connection between the arson and the ‘Stop Cop City’ movement.
Supporters gathered to demand Mazurek’s immediate release, but court officials postponed his hearing this morning after an indictment was obtained in his case. For now, Mazurek will remain in jail pending a bond hearing in Superior Court.
“We remain unfazed and unsurprised by the state’s actions to postpone Jack’s bond hearing,” said a member of Jack’s support crew who asked to be identified only as Leandra. “This is a blatant attempt to demoralize and humiliate supporters and loved ones who showed up today as well as a reassurance to Cop City stakeholders that they have people in jail. We will not be dissuaded from supporting our friend or broken by their ongoing harassment because we are motivated by the strongest force of all, love.”
The indictment returned in Mazurek’s case accuses him of “the offense of arson in the first degree O.C.G.A. §16-7-60(a)(5),” and states that “on the 1st day of July, 2023, [Mazurek] did unlawfully, by means of fire, knowingly aid another in damaging vehicles, to wit: motorcycles belonging to the Atlanta Police Department, under circumstances in which it was reasonably foreseeable that human life might be endangered…”
The indictment was signed by grand jury foreperson Beth Hart and 19 other grand jurors on February 29, 2024. The indictment is also signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis.
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