An executive in DeKalb County, Georgia – which encompasses the city of Atlanta – has ordered the temporary closure of a public park which is also being developed to house a new police and fire training facility.
The future training facilities – dubbed “Cop City” by their opponents – have spurred opposition due to what some see as a potential negative impact on the environment, as well as on the community.
What exactly is included in the plans that have drawn such stark opposition? Per Fox 5, the development plans include the following:
“In addition to classrooms and administration buildings, the proposed $90-million police and firefighter training center would include a shooting range, a driving course to practice chases, and a “burn building” for firefighters to work on putting out fires. A “mock village” featuring a fake home, convenience store, and nightclub would also be built for authorities to rehearse raids …
Police officials say the state-of-the-art campus would replace substandard offerings and boost police morale beset by hiring and retention struggles in the wake of violent protests against racial injustice after George Floyd's death in 2020.
Opponents of the training center have been protesting since 2021 by building platforms in surrounding trees and camping out at the site. They say that the project, which would be built by the Atlanta Police Foundation, involves cutting down so many trees that it would be environmentally damaging. Many activists also oppose spending so much money on a police facility that would be surrounded by poor, majority-Black neighborhoods in a city with one of the nation's highest degrees of wealth inequality.”
Protests that have taken place at the site have led to the arrests of multiple out-of-state activists, including a lawyer for the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Now, the site has been booby-trapped with planks of wood embedded with nails, and rocks have been thrown at city workers that have attempted to start the project, per CNN. This is what led the County's CEO Michael Thurmond to issue the executive order to close the site last Friday.
So you let the leftist fu*kers win? Weak!
This is extremely maddening when activist prevent safety training to help the black neighborhoods gain control of their safety. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is nothing but a trouble maker to ensure the failure of decency and safety. Their only concern is their own popularity to gain more cases and make $$$ and use the community to push their name into the papers, etc. Antifa, BLM and this law firm all need to be designated as terrorist groups and banned in our nation. You can’t help decent people/neighborhoods when you have dangerous trash like this running the streets and stopping police from controlling violence.
The builders should have simply cut down every tree in sight and set them all on fire and brought in a couple of steers to BBQ. That would have really irritated (not the word I would prefer using but don’t want my statement blacklisted) the tree huggers. They could have invited the neighborhood to the BBQ since it’s such a poor neighborhood.