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' twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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
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…
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" twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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…
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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…
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…
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 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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.”
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militarized police and crushing uprisings cited as purpose behind "#copcity" project - live now on YouTube
Speaker says that local authorities deliberately selected people from out of state in a large crowd in order to fabricate outside agitator narrative
- live now video twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has claimed that a “Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee” represented public buy-in on the “Cop City” project.
In reality, the committee was conducting a “narrative” “offensive” on behalf of the Atlanta Police Foundation:
When committee leaders moved to kick an environmental engineer off the committee for telling press that the “Cop City” plan ignored environmental issues, Atlanta PD Chief Darin Schierbaum was allowed to vote as part of the contested removal process.
Meanwhile, some committee members who were local residents near the proposed site, who opposed the removal of environmental engineer Lily Ponitz from the committee, were not allowed a vote in the matter at all.
Bond hearings are happening right now for many of the people arrested from Sunday evening events in the South River Forest. Watch here: youtube.com/live/KCTOlUPOA…
Every single person so far has been denied bond, each of them have domestic terrorism charges.
Judge A. W. Davis is now hearing from the @splcenter lawyer who was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. Peter Johnson, the prosecutor, is now speaking and saying that "this is a dynamic case" and "just because you're an attorney, doesn't mean you can't commit a crime."
Arrest warrants filed in Georgia in December justify charging #StopCopCity protesters with “Domestic Terrorism” by citing a federal Dept of Homeland Security “extremist” designation.
Most of the original “Domestic Terrorism” warrants for environmentalists were written by Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent [Gerald] Ryan Long, who joined GBI after leaving the Lilburn PD in 2019.
While with the Lilburn PD in 2018, Long shot at a vehicle driven by someone named Jesse Allen.
We can’t find any news reporting about this shooting anywhere.
“Use of deadly force” language in incident paperwork implies Long possibly killed this person, but we cannot confirm.