An activist was killed by police during a violent raid of the protest camp that has blocked construction of an enormous police training facility known as “Cop City” on roughly 100 acres of public forest in southeast Atlanta.
Sited on land formerly occupied by a notorious prison farm and called Weelaunee Forest by original Indigenous residents and activists today, opponents say the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center would train police in militarized tactics used to repress social movements and communities of color.
While residents and organizers in Atlanta pushed back against the planned facility, arguing the community was allowed little input on the matter, the Stop Cop City protest camp attracted young and rowdy crowds of activists who see issues such as police brutality, systemic racism and climate change intersecting in southeast Atlanta and Weelaunee Forest. To defend the forest, protesters built barricades and tree houses, as well as a communal kitchen and other infrastructure in the woods.
Activists said on social media that they expect more forest defenders to be arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism” as a result of the most recent raid, which could deflect media attention from the killing of a protester. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation
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