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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. [6] 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.
A survey conducted by Social Insights in August 2021 of nearly 400 residents in the forest’s surrounding area found that 98% did not support new police and fire fighting facilities being built ...
Firefighters on the scene after a police car was set on fire during a protest against Cop City in Atlanta, Jan. 21. (Benjamin Hendren/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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.
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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.
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