Despite thousands protesting, Atlanta City Council approves $30M in additional funding for Cop City, a massive police training facility. The total cost is now $67M, more than double the original estimate.
Marching up to freedom land.Ultimately, at about 5:30 this morning, the Atlanta City Council voted 11 to 4 to fund the Cop City facility.
And we saw law enforcement officers really on every single level of the City Hall in the inside of the atrium. And so, I had never seen that kind of activity in which our law enforcement response would essentially, you know, criminalize in some ways what we were trying to do, which was to lift up the voice of the people.And, Reverend, I wanted to ask you — the mayor of Atlanta has claimed that much of the opposition is from outside agitators and a white movement.
So, the experience was terrifying on two different levels: in this immediate way of what it was like to face that kind of police violence for doing nothing more than nonviolent work to support the rights of protesters, but also on this higher level of what it means, right? Because if this kind of police violence can be brought even against organizers like us, who — you know, who do nothing more than make sure that activists have access to lawyers, who make sure that they’re able to make bail if...
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