Atlanta's "Cop City" Moves Ahead After Police Kill 1 Protester & Charge 19 with Domestic Terrorism

[Uncle Joe]

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced Tuesday that a proposed $90 million police training facility known as "Cop City" is moving forward, despite growing opposition and the police killing of a forest defender. Just weeks ago, law enforcement officers — including a SWAT team — were violently evicting protesters who had occupied a wooded area outside the center, when they shot and killed a longtime activist and charged 19 with domestic terrorism. The activists have been camping out in Weelaunee Forest for months to prevent its destruction. Mayor Dickens vowed to address their concerns, but protesters have vowed that Cop City will not be built. We speak with investigative reporter Alleen Brown, who says the "flimsy" domestic terrorism charges appear to be part of a strategy to undermine the protest movement rather than respond to an actual threat to public safety. "These charges may not be meant to stick. Perhaps instead it's meant to send a message," she says.

[ck4829]

1. So white guy goes on a shooting spree to start race war and it's "Just murder, not terrorism"

But police shoot at protesters and charge the survivors with "terrorism"

Interesting... interesting.

[TeamProg]

2. So, just FUCK, Wow! FUCK!

[Warpy]

3. Everybody seems to be tapdancing around the real issue

by focusing on the trees: this is going to be a facility for over militarized cops to train for urban warfare against US citizens. It has no other purpose.

Think about that one.

Atlanta cops won't be using this place full time, it will be a money maker as militarized cops from all over the country book time there to train how to kill US citizens, some of them for the crime of getting in the way of a military operation.

You'd think Miss Ummmm would point that part out.

[Magoo48]

4. Atlanta and it's cop amusement park are a nasty joke.

And, the joke is on our environment.
The terrorists are those who cut down the trees, not the trees’ protectors.

Mayor Dickens’ sounds like a Republican to my ears. Compromise? Sheeeit.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Is there no other site being considered besides this rare green area??