Biography
Francis Carroll, 22, is a pro-forest, anti-Cop City activist from Kennebunkport, Maine. On January 21, 2023, he was arrested during a protest march through downtown Atlanta called in response to the police killing of Manuel "Tortuguita" Paez Terán three days earlier. Demonstrators vandalized the Atlanta Police Foundation building, smashed windows at a Wells Fargo branch, and set an APD patrol car on fire. Carroll was charged with domestic terrorism, first-degree arson, second-degree criminal damage to property, interference with government property, rioting, unlawful assembly, obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and pedestrian in a roadway. He was denied bond on January 23, 2023 and held in Fulton County Jail for several weeks before bond was eventually granted. It was his second domestic terrorism arrest in five weeks, following a December 13, 2022 arrest at the Cop City construction site. In September 2023 he was included in a 61-person RICO indictment brought by the Georgia Attorney General; the RICO charge was dismissed December 30, 2025. His domestic terrorism charge remained pending as of July 2026, with an interlocutory appeal filed in January 2026.
