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Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta.
“The problem with the police training center and the Atlanta forest is a classic Atlanta issue,” Doug Williams, a resident of Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood and political activist, told ...
Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades Monday to halt a march against building an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center that opponents call “Cop City.” More than 400 people ...
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A memorial in the Atlanta forest commemorating Tortuguita. On the morning of January 18, 2023, Paez Terán was inside a tent at the Stop Cop City encampment. [1] At around 9:00 a.m. that morning, Georgia State Patrol troopers commenced a raid, also known as a Clearing Operation, on the encampment with the intent of removing and clearing illegal encampments and trespassers.
The facility, derisively dubbed “Cop City” by opponents of the project, is set to be built on 85 acres of Atlanta’s historic South River Forest, an area deeply entwined with the plight of ...
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus under construction in the South River Forest area of DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of the land included in the plans was formerly part of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, which was abandoned in 1995.
A 109-page indictment, handed up by a grand jury last week and made public on Tuesday, accuses 61 members of a group called Defend the Atlanta Forest of illegally occupying the 85-acre (34.4 ...