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The George Floyd protests in Atlanta were a series of protests occurring in Atlanta, the capital and largest city of Georgia, United States.The protests were part of the George Floyd protests and, more broadly, the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, which began shortly after the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
In Atlanta on May 29, 2020 the CNN Center which also houses a police precinct of the Atlanta Police Department [217] was attacked and damaged by protesters. [ 218 ] [ 202 ] In the District of Columbia on May 30, 2020, a Fox News crew was attacked outside the White House by a group of protesters while reporting on the scene. [ 219 ]
Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement focused on Atlanta, Georgia, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta.
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 ...
On July 8, 2011, it was reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that six police officers were fired for lying about events concerning the Atlanta Eagle police raid (which targeted the Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar). In June 2011, a 343-page report was released that details how 16 officers lied or destroyed evidence when asked about the raid on ...
Atlanta police have released body camera video of the fatal “Cop City” activist shooting which suggests that an ... More than 10K structures damaged or destroyed in devastating Los Angeles ...
On May 21, 1917, the Great Atlanta Fire destroyed 1,938 buildings, ... the police arrested six communist leaders, who became known as the Atlanta Six, under a ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged, a prosecutor ...