Posted on Nov 14, 2023
Police deploy tear gas, flash-bang grenades at 'Cop City' protestors during march - WABE
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Opponents of Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center were met with tear gas and flash-bang grenades during a march held Monday morning seeking to halt its construction.
City officials have said the 85-acre, $90 million facility is needed to improve de-escalation training and help recruit and retain more officers.
City officials have said the 85-acre, $90 million facility is needed to improve de-escalation training and help recruit and retain more officers.
Police deploy tear gas, flash-bang grenades at 'Cop City' protestors during march - WABE
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This has been controversial for quite a while. Don't know a lot about the situation but it's always sounded like one of those "Not in My Backyard" things.
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SGM (Join to see)
It is not a NIMB scenario. This training facility will teach advanced police techniques—including deescalation training that can prevent instances of excessive force. This is what the George Floyd protestors supposedly asked for—but these anarchist protestors actually want to disband the police (under the false premise of environmentalism). And the overwhelming majority of these agitators are not even from Georgia. They are almost all from out of state.
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LTC David Brown
Most of the people protesting have been from out of state. The last incident a protestor shot at a police fire was returned and the protestor killed. Construction equipment was burned. It was mainly Antifa protesting the first time.
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LTC David Brown
Note where the protestors are from. https://www.atlantapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/3927/17
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
LTC David Brown Seems to be the trend with protests that turn violent these days.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“The primary function of repression is to introduce trumped-up legal charges and domestic terrorism charges, RICO charges, is to scare us into inaction,” he said. “And the worst thing that we can do in the face of heightened repression is give in to fear and shrink.”
Over the past few months, tensions have been rising after Georgia prosecutors indicted 57 protesters on racketeering charges, and police raided and arrested three people who ran the Atlanta Solidarity Fund — an organization that provided bail funds for people arrested while protesting. One protester was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention.
Meanwhile, the City of Atlanta has refused to accept a 116,000-signature citizen petition calling for a referendum on the project, and Fulton County also plans to build a new training center at a cost of about $15 million.
County officials have not responded to WABE’s request for more details or an interview since June.
In the meantime, activists, including those from out of state, say they will continue to engage in different forms of civil disobedience to “Block Cop City.”
Just last week, Atlanta police arrested four people and charged them with criminal trespassing for blocking the entrance to the site. They ranged from 63 to 76 years old. All but one were from outside the city."
..."“The primary function of repression is to introduce trumped-up legal charges and domestic terrorism charges, RICO charges, is to scare us into inaction,” he said. “And the worst thing that we can do in the face of heightened repression is give in to fear and shrink.”
Over the past few months, tensions have been rising after Georgia prosecutors indicted 57 protesters on racketeering charges, and police raided and arrested three people who ran the Atlanta Solidarity Fund — an organization that provided bail funds for people arrested while protesting. One protester was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention.
Meanwhile, the City of Atlanta has refused to accept a 116,000-signature citizen petition calling for a referendum on the project, and Fulton County also plans to build a new training center at a cost of about $15 million.
County officials have not responded to WABE’s request for more details or an interview since June.
In the meantime, activists, including those from out of state, say they will continue to engage in different forms of civil disobedience to “Block Cop City.”
Just last week, Atlanta police arrested four people and charged them with criminal trespassing for blocking the entrance to the site. They ranged from 63 to 76 years old. All but one were from outside the city."
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Rioters aren’t protestors. Real bullets should be used again. They didn’t seem to learn their lesson after the armed criminal Tortuguita got wasted.
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