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Around 200 some people are at the King Center in Atlanta for a rally against police brutality & #CopCity ~ stay tuned twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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LIVE NOW - rally against police brutality and the #copcity project in Atlanta at the King Center
Speaker now saying the "Black misleadership class" started "selling out Black people" in the 1960s with the help of corporations - we are live in Atlanta twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Speaker is saying that local authorities are sharing techniques with Israelis who use them to effect genocide on Palestinians, and the police that would be brought into #CopCity are the 'outside agitators'
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Current speaker is Jasmine Burnett, organizing director of Community Movement Builders. Next is Tortuguita's mother - twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Moments ago speaking - Jasmine Burnett, organizing director of Community Movement Builders #copcity protest in Atlanta
Now the mother of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, is speaking at a rally against #CopCity twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Live now - rally against #CopCity in Atlanta near the ML King Center - tune in
Morehouse students are speaking now - they worked with Spellman College students to pressure Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens & oppose the #CopCity project - LIVE NOW twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
College students are speaking on how they say Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has let down the community - live now twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Live now - "#StopCopCity" Rally at King Center in Atlanta twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Native speakers "we are coming back" for things "taken from our ancestors .. being together in community .. love each other and look out for one another"
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LIVE NOW - Speaker - "these council members are shook" when "they look at what we can do" .. "they will never take East Atlanta" and do what they want with it twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Tune in now >>>
We are live in Atlanta right now - light rain currently - a march from the King center area is starting soon - tune in twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
March leaving the MLK Park to the Atlanta Police Foundation now - tune in twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
March in Atlanta is now on the move towards Atlanta Police Foundation twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Hundreds of people are marching towards the #Atlanta Police Foundation now - POC/Indigenous led march continues twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Projector is throwing images on a building - march is heading towards Atlanta Police Foundation now #CopCity
People are on the streets in Atlanta - light rain - heading towards Atlanta Police Foundation twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
LIVE NOW - @ Atlanta Police Foundation building which is boarded up - police heavily armed w rifles
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LIVE NOW - March is @ Atlanta Police Foundation building which is boarded up - police heavily armed w rifles twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Earlier - 100s marching towards Atlanta Police Foundation - live now from the building twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… #CopCity
LIVE NOW - March of 100s in the rain has stopped at boarded-up Atlanta Police Foundation - #CopCity
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Speaker is linking the killing of Tyre Nichols to the training provided in Atlanta - live now twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Protesters opposed to #CopCity project speaking in front of the boarded up Atlanta Police Foundation - live now - more police have just emerged from the building twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Live now - more police just emerged from the Atlanta Police Foundation building - speakers are talking about global imperialism, roots of 'thin blue line' - tune in twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Live now - protesters opposing #copcity at Atlanta Police Foundation twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Police with rifles and riot gear line the boarded facade of the Atlanta Police Foundation building - we are live now as protesters speak against the #CopCity project
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. @kamaufranklin talking about how "language of segregationists" used by #atlanta mayor Andre Dickens
to discredit opposition to #CopCity project #atlantaprotest - live now twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@kamaufranklin LIVE NOW - @kamaufranklin talking about how "language of segregationists" used by #atlanta mayor Andre Dickens to discredit opposition to #CopCity project #atlantaprotest - wraps up speeches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@kamaufranklin Recently on this stream was the mother of this man from Columbus unicornriot.ninja/2020/columbus-…
@kamaufranklin Hearing now from Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin - rally is over twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@kamaufranklin We are tracking the police actions a little longer then going down - thank you all for tuning in tonight - > support our work at unicornriot.ninja/donate <
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A paid parking lot used by some #StopCopCity protesters appears to have two immobilization boots applied to every single vehicle that paid to park in the lot.
A rented white van full of cops parked right outside the lot can be heard laughing as people continue to arrive to discover the boots on their vehicle.
An employee of Empire Parking Services collecting boot fees, when asked if police asked EPS to target out-of-town vehicles driven by protesters and media, said “ask the police.” Yellow boots placed on the tires and rim of a parked compactYellow boots placed on the tires and rim of a parked compact

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