Cop City, Atlanta: Inside the Fight Against the Largest Police Training Base in the US
- Rania Khalek
- Friday 27 Jan 23
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Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran was shot and killed by Atlanta police last week, while defending the Weelaunee Forest from destruction for a new police training facility, “Cop City.” Since 2021, activists have been fighting the proposed $90 million, 350-acre training center that would serve as a mock city of Atlanta to test out urban warfare.
Kamau Franklin, Organizer with Community Movement Builders, discusses the ongoing Stop Cop City Movement and the deadly repression activists are facing.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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