Thread by @ndncollective

Local #Atlanta Interfaith Clergy holds a Press Conference to demand Mayor Andre Dickens #StopCopCity. The #ATL police are stating "outside agitators" are against this $90M project but that is a lie. Local residents of #ATL "do not want Cop City."

🧵 We heard the Interfaith Clergy loud and clear: "We don't want more policing and terrorizing of Black, Brown, and Indigenous bodies in our community." #StopCopCity

✊"All of this is a fight over land, which white people have been wagging since the beginning of time." #Landback #StopCopCity #Solidarity

Mekko Chebon (Muscogee Creek Nation, Seminole) states, "It was not our choice to leave here… this is our homeland.” Due to military occupation and forced removal, "illegally, lands were taken from us." #NoCopCity on #StolenLands

#CopCity is a “violence against all creation.” “Increasing of militarized forces out there does not ever create peace” says relative Mekko Chebon (Muscogee Creek Nation, Seminole)

Matthew Johnson, interim Executive Director of @BelovedCommune speaks to the unjust murder of Tortuguita and the arrests of 40+ demonstrators who will be charged with domestic terrorism charges for their involvement in the #StopCopCity movement. #NoCopCity on #StolenLands

Watch the full NDN LIVE: Press Conference - Faith Coalition to #StopCopCity #Atlanta #GA
youtube.com/live/r_fV-0c-d…