Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’: Citizens speak in opposition of facility for over 7 hours

A number of residents have opposed the constructing of a new cop coaching heart in Atlanta for months. On Could 15, 2023, over 200 residents confirmed as much as Atlanta’s metropolis corridor and spoke for over seven hours about why they nonetheless oppose it.

The road to enroll in public remark is OUT THE DOOR of metropolis corridor and solely getting longer. Atlanta does NOT WANT COP CITY https://t.co/kNzAj5RTeD pic.twitter.com/IIC4rUdlhv

— #StopCopCity (@micahinATL) Could 15, 2023

Very proud to be included on this picture of people that submitted public remark towards Cop Metropolis. This picture exhibits lower than half of the 300 folks, who all opposed it and they’re consultant of the overwhelming majority of Atlanta residents who don’t need it. pic.twitter.com/diFcTFQqqj

— Curtis Duncan (@CurtisLDuncan) Could 17, 2023

New York Occasions‘ reporter Sean Keenan reported after the seven hours of the residents opposing Cop Metropolis, Atlanta councilmember Dustin Hillis proposed laws to make use of as much as $30 million of metropolis cash for the coaching heart.

The Atlanta Public Security Coaching Middle will value an estimated $90 million. The middle would come with firing ranges and explosive testing grounds, and a mock metropolis for officers to coach on how you can deal with citywide protests, in line with Unicorn Riot.

In March, protesters hosted every week of motion, which concluded with a free two-day music pageant that featured performances from Zack Fox, Father, Raury, Etheral, Tony Shhnow, Archibald Slim and Mercury. Fox, who additionally performs Tariq on the hit sitcom “Abbott Elementary” advised protesters he believed in them and he grew up within the neighborhood close to the proposed.

“I actually don’t need to see this s— occur,” Fox advised the group.

In January, Georgia state troopers shot and killed Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, a 26-year-old activist who glided by the nickname of “Tortuguita” and used the pronouns “they/them.” Officers initially claimed the activist shot a state trooper first, however it was later decided the trooper was shot by a fellow officer. In April, Teran’s post-mortem was launched, and it was discovered they didn’t have any gunpowder on their arms on the time of their dying.

Quick-forward to this previous week, and in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene inaccurately stated Teran shot and killed a state trooper.

“Left-wing extremism is certainly on the rise, and homicide is a giant a part of it,” Greene stated.

Greene: They really murdered somebody. Oh you don’t know since you don’t examine left-wing extremism. There was a 26 12 months previous activist, Manuel Terán, shot and killed Georgia State Trooper pic.twitter.com/cHEJNA50EA

— Acyn (@Acyn) Could 16, 2023

Supporters of the general public security coaching heart embody Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Ambassador Andrew Younger and businessman John Hope Bryant.