Posted on 06/06/2023 5:37:22 PM PDT by Libloather
The city of Atlanta has approved funding for a controversial new police training center dubbed 'Cop City' by opponents.
The 11-4 vote happened on Tuesday after hundreds of activists packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project, which they say will destroy the local environment and militarize the police.
For about 14 hours, residents took to the podium to slam the $90 million project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority black area of southeast of Atlanta.
Six hours into the meeting, Emory University religion professor Sara McClintock took to the podium and pleaded with councilmembers to reject, or at least rethink, the training center.
'We don't want it,' McClintock said. 'We don't want it because it doesn't contribute to life. It´s not an institution of peace. It's not a way forward for our city that we love.'
Still, councilmembers agreed to approve $31 million in public funds for the site's construction, as well as a provision that requires the city to pay $36 million - $1.2 million a year over 30 years - for using the facility.
The rest of the funding for the project would come from private donations to the Atlanta Police Foundation.
The project has faced passionate opposition since it was announced, with the decentralized 'Stop Cop City' movement galvanizing protesters from across the country, especially in the wake of the January fatal police shooting of Manuel Paez Terán, a 26-year-old activist known as 'Tortuguita' who had been camping in the woods of the proposed project.
In a sign of the security concerns Monday, dozens of police officers were posted throughout City Hall and officials temporarily added 'liquids, aerosols, gels, creams and pastes'...
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Well, yeah. The crowd was chanting “if you build it we will burn it”. Sounds like both a threat and an insurrection.
Awesome. The ‘Stop Copy City’ leftists are among the most vile leftist/trans/BLM scum in America.
They are the same ones complaining cops don’t get enough training. They’re insane
“ We don’t want it because it doesn’t contribute to life. It´s not an institution of peace. ”
Stopping crime isn’t “an institution of peace”,
Well ok!!
I guess rampant crime and lawlessness is.
These thugs really want to make USA third world lawless place like Venezuela or Uganda.
“if you build it we will burn it”
Reminds me of this;
https://youtu.be/nIIAEk-J5m0?t=156
They want to burn down a fireman’s training center? Ha!
See you in a few days. :^)
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