Tag: Cop City
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Block Cop City group issues call for mass action to stop construction
By: Matt Scott Update: Block Cop City organizers now say the nationwide tour will cover 70 cities. Just days after members of the clergy and other people of faith chained themselves to construction equipment at the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site, a new group, Block Cop City, announced plans for a mass action on Nov.…
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RICO repercussions: how threats to Stop Cop City implicate reproductive justice
By Nneka Ewulonu RICO charges usually invoke the image of mob bosses and crime aficionados. But in Georgia – where the state RICO law is broader than its federal counterpart – the state recently levied RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists and Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers. The sprawling 109 page indictment, first made…
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Construction work stopped briefly as Cop City protesters enter site
Thursday morning a group of Cop City activists invoked a “people’s stop work order” and chained themselves to equipment at the construction site for the proposed Atlanta Safety Public Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City.
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Referendum coalition requests election monitors oversee City’s process
On Tuesday, the Cop City Vote Coalition requested the Carter Center monitor how Atlanta undertakes the verification process to validate the referendum petition that would put the future of the training center opponents call “Cop City” on the ballot. The coalition made its request to the director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program David Carroll…
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Georgia Attorney General brings RICO indictments against 61 activists
The Georgia Attorney General’s Office filed RICO (racketeering-influenced and corrupt organizations) charges against 61 individuals alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement. The indictment was filed Aug. 29, but went unannounced and unnoticed until the Atlanta Community Press Collective broke the story on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, Tuesday morning.
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Video: Hollman family calls for protest after police kill 62-year-old
By Nolan Huber-Rhoades Linked by a common cause, the grieving family of Johnny Hollman and community organizers against the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center called for a protest on Thursday after Atlanta Police Department (APD) Officer Kiran Kimbrough killed 62-year-old Hollman during a routine traffic accident investigation around midnight on the morning of Aug. 11.
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Not just Cop City, referendum team threatens the Atlanta Way
On Monday, the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition is set to turn in over 100,000 signatures on the petition to put add a November ballot question asking voters to decide whether to overturn the 2021 ordinance authorizing the lease of 381 acres in the South River Forest to the Atlanta Police Foundation for the construction…
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Video: Atlantans compare suppression of Cop City petitions to Trump election interference
With national news outlets positioned outside the Fulton County Courthouse in anticipation of District Attorney Fani Willis issuing grand jury indictments against Donald Trump on Monday, a crowd gathered in the afternoon before the charges were announced and began to chant, “Donald Trump, Andre Dickens, I don’t know the f—ing difference.”
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Charlotte officer sued for defamatory statements to DeKalb prosecutors
By: Matt Scott CHARLOTTE N.C. — At a press conference in front of Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Tim Emry and Xavier T. de Janon, attorneys for activist Jamie Marsicano, announced a complaint for damages lawsuit against Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) Major Brad Koch for his alleged improper handling of Marsicano’s expunged arrest…
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DeKalb district attorney withdraws from alleged Cop City cases
This afternoon, DeKalb District Attorney (DA) Sherry Boston announced that after a formal review of the evidence, her office is withdrawing from the prosecution of 42 cases against individuals opposed to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City, a $90 million training center being built by the Atlanta Police Foundation…