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The Day of Action against Police Terror and to Stop Cop City will be duplicated over and over again. #StopCopCity pic.twitter.com/WoooNmUzkQ
— Kamau Franklin (@kamaufranklin) March 12, 2023
Cop City is a bust!
Bringing down Cop City!
I stand with the black criminals!
Kamau Franklin stood in midtown Atlanta on a recent chilly, drizzly night, held a microphone and addressed a crowd that had peacefully marched a mile to the headquarters of the Atlanta Police Foundation – the organization behind the $90m police and fire department training center known as “Cop City”.
“[Atlanta] Mayor Andre Dickens – is this enough Black folks for you?” he began, with several dozen Atlanta police department officers standing behind him, most with riot helmets and some with long guns, guarding the entrance to the 50-story building.
“Mayor Andre Dickens – do we have enough people from Atlanta here for you?” he continued.
Franklin, founder of an Atlanta-based non-profit organization, Community Movement Builders, helped organize the event, the first Black-led protest against Cop City as part of ongoing opposition in its second year that has now sparked national and international headlines.
The optics of Black voices being added to the public conversation around Cop City is especially important in Atlanta, where nearly half the population is Black, and which is often referred to with terms such as “the birthplace of the civil rights movement” and “the Black Mecca”.
The training center, planned for 85 acres in the South River Forest south-east of the city, has drawn increasing attention particularly since 18 January, when police shot and killed Manuel Paez Terán, or “Tortuguita”, an activist who was camping in Intrenchment Creek Park, a part of the forest that is separated from the “Cop City” site by the creek that is its namesake.
Police said Paez Terán shot first, but there is no body cam or other video of the shooting. The park side is under threat from Ryan Millsap, a former film studio owner, but remains public while the developer’s plans are the subject of a local environmental group’s lawsuit.
About 400 Black, Latino, Native and white people, from Atlanta and elsewhere, marched on Thursday night through intermittent rain from the King Center in Sweet Auburn – the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr – to the midtown office tower. Chants included “Stop Cop City” and “Viva Tortuguita”.
The march came on the heels of an increasing number of public pronouncements in recent weeks by Atlanta-area, Black faith and community leaders and students at historically Black colleges, in opposition to the project. Their concerns include increasing police militarization and abuse of force, as well as the loss of part of a forest that was originally included in 2017 plans to create what would have been the city’s largest park, in an area where longstanding, majority-Black neighborhoods have been overlooked for decades. These same neighborhoods were completely left out of the planning and decision-making process behind “Cop City”.
The march also came after more than 100 activists drawn to the forest for a “Week of Action” had crossed from the public park during a music festival last Sunday, over to the training center construction site, where they set bulldozers and other equipment on fire. Police then entered the public park side, eventually arresting 23 people and charging them with “domestic terrorism” – indicating evidence on arrest records such as “muddy shoes”.
In this context, Black organizers and participants at Thursday’s march wanted to ensure that nothing would allow the dozens of police officers from various agencies following marchers on foot and in marked and unmarked vehicles to behave similarly and crack down on them.
“We didn’t want to put a spotlight on our people – to subject them to further police repression,” said the Rev Keyanna Jones, an Atlanta native who was at the march. Organizers in reflective vests ensured that marchers remained on city sidewalks and constantly monitored protester and police behavior alike.
Seriously though, as much as I dislike black criminals, I prefer them to cops.
Black criminals are easy to avoid. The cops are everywhere trying to crush you in the name of the Jew government’s gay, virus, and BLM agenda.
Cops will arrest you for not wearing a mask or for not wanting your kids to have gay sex. Blacks will just kill you randomly – but only if they see you. They won’t come find you like the cops.
