The Atlanta Police Department plan to destroy nearly 100 acres of forest to erect a domestic version of a military base in the heart of a working-class Black community known as “Cop City.”
The Atlanta Police Foundation, the Atlanta Police Department and the City of Atlanta plan to destroy nearly 100 acres of forest to erect a domestic version of a military base in the heart of a working-class Black community. The plans for this “Cop City” include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, explosives testing areas, dozens of shooting ranges and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad.
Since June 2021 when the protest began, demonstrators have been pepper-sprayed, attacked, threatened and violently arrested by the police. Whether the tactics were marches or dismantling bulldozers, demonstrations against Cop City have been criminalized.
, stated, “It is important that we connect King’s radical legacy to this fight against a militarized police facility being built in Atlanta: a facility whose only purpose is to stop future uprisings against police violence.
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