Local opposition to a police training center in Atlanta, Georgia, that began in 2021 has exploded into a nationwide anti-police and environmentalism movement as activists within the state and across the United States call for the end to 'Cop City.'
Local opposition to a police training center in Atlanta, Georgia, that began in 2021 has exploded into a nationwide anti-police and environmentalism movement as activists within the state and across the United States call for the end to"Cop City."
In Atlanta especially, with the death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, residents have been asking for new methods of public safety. “To be clear — cop city is not just a controversial training center. It is a war base where police will learn militarylike maneuvers to kill black people and control our bodies and movements," Kwame Olufemi of Community Movement Builders said in a statement via the Stop Cop City website."They are practicing how to make sure poor and working-class people stay in line."
"It is not the right place for it," Echols said to the Washington Examiner regarding the Weelaunee Forest."It just will destroy the largest piece of green space inside of I-285 in the city of Atlanta. The impacts on the community, the impacts related to climate change, are just tremendous." The beginning of Atlanta residents' opposition to police came in June 2020, less than a month after Floyd was killed. Brooks was shot and killed by police after he resisted arrest, grabbed a police taser, and aimed it at officers in a Wendy's parking lot on June 12, 2020. Prosecutors had declined to charge the officers involved. The Atlanta City Council awarded $1 million in reparations to Brooks's wife.
In January, the situation escalated dramatically, resulting in the death of 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who was shot and killed on Jan. 18 in a shootout with police that also injured a Georgia State Patrol officer during a sweep of the protester's forest encampment. State officials had claimed self-defense, but the shooting remains under investigation. A report from the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office determined that Teran had sustained at least 57 gunshot wounds.
“This was not a protest,” Atlanta Police Department officials had said. “This wasn’t about a public training center; this was about anarchy.”
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