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.
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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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