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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.
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...
Live TV footage showed protesters under arrest, kneeling on the ground, their hands bound behind their backs with zip ties. Loud explosions were heard during the clash from flash-bang charges, or ...
The demands of the protest would be for police to keep their body cams on during protests and stop the sweeps of homeless camps, and for the City of Seattle to divest $100 million of the police budget used for militarization of police and invest the money into social services, to drop their lawsuit against King County over the inquest process ...
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said Monday that officers were called to monitor a protest downtown about 3 p.m. "We responded to some protesters walking through the immediate downtown ...
A longtime Texas journalist was knocked down in the mayhem and could be seen bleeding before police helped him to emergency medical staff. Dane Urquhart, a third-year Texas student, called the police presence and arrests an “overreaction," adding that the protest “would have stayed peaceful” if the officers had not turned out in force.
As police advanced, some protesters started running, while others stood their ground and filmed. At about 8:30 p.m., the second of two unlawful-assembly orders was given by police officers.
Copwatch calls for responses to, or critical evaluation of, police controls in order to support those affected, especially by racial or class profiling. [7] Educational work regarding the powers of the police as well as civilian rights is a focus of Copwatch in order to support more people in their encounters with police. [8]