Find myself interested in finding a video from these city meetings as the councilman claimed they had no push back during talks.

I heard someone once say: "When the government and corporations come together to force an action on the public, its Fascism"

I live by a "cop city" in NC. They aren't good neighbors, setting off quarter sticks of dynamite as late as 11 pm, when their car hits the blacktop at the entry of the compound, every single one of them stomps it to the floor to get to the stop sign close by, shooting target practice at 8 am on Sunday morning, way more trash thrown out on weeks that they have group practice (or what ever they are doing) ...

Military police and forrest people having a non stop battle. This is like the plot from Avatar.

So long as police culture remains toxic, no amount of training will remedy that. Police, instead of building positive relationships with said community, will continue to see them as the enemy...

There are so many areas that are already developed where a facility like this could go. Why do they feel the need to destroy acres and acres of beautiful green space.

“I move around the city constantly” 😂.. what does that even mean 6.24

The fact schools get closed, half of American water can give you cancer, 60% of Americans life pay check to pay check, etc, but you have money to build a cop city is wild.

Why are private companies involved in this?

If they build this training center, will they go inside a school building with an active shooter?

Why don’t the cops just use some of the millions of abandoned buildings? There is no need to destroy a forest and displace people.

Boycott the corporations. The mayor didn’t help anything

That’s wild. The city could have used Fort McPherson but they sold it Tyler Perry.

has anyone noticed how hard it is to find information about cop city on youtube that isn’t from a major media source?

Another irony? Protesting a facility that would provide training for police and other first responders, that the most people insist they don't get enough of.

The rich people want this project, build it on their backyard. They can afford to give up a golf course or two.

Affordable housing is more important. Lowering home interest rate so the middle class can become home owners. Can they find other ways boost morale within the APD. Instead of spending millions to build a facility, that money should be put into their pockets so they can be home’s owners too and pay for their kid’s education. Don’t cut the tree down, give the officers who serve our community a raise and focus on community relations. Revamp the facilities you already have and build the building up! ❤

The public: Affordable housing? Atlanta’s government: Nah The public: Support for mental health? Atlanta’s government: Nah… but we can build you a cop city though

That one black dude and the old lady are the only black folks talking shit about this. They're probably looking for an attorney to file a senseless lawsuit.

Living in thr ATL area (suburbs) I heard the term cop city in various news reports, but didn't fully understand the pushback to create a place for cops to train. This reporting really helps. I didn't know residents were against it at all.

Step 1) claim Police are undertrained and kill people because of it Step 2) pay for facility to train them better Step 3) protest the building of a that facility to train police better. Step 4) complain again how police are undertrained.

feel like its worth noting that it wasnt actually a response to the 2020 uprisings, it was announced way back in 2017, i wish more of us knew about it earlier on :/

Notice she said, "One of the biggest in the U.S."....

My word?! They really talmbout some "We plan to commemorate shit after we deliberately destroy it"...

POLICE IS A BUSINESS

I never seen anyone shed a tear over Fort Benning.

70% of city residents said no! They have no representation on city council either!

No matter how you approach the issue of crime. In our cities . It will turn to skin colour ( inserts: treat others as I treat myself ) 🤡🌎

That moment when the subdivisions built in Atlanta take up collectively much more land that was previously lush Forest than the police training facility

Theory (I know this doesn't matter but more comments = more views): the forest defenders are changing their names for every interview based on what is around them. "Folding Chair?" Iconic improv work.

This aged well...

If you got lots of cash then they will turn the other way! Threats of violence and lots of money evil will do what they do.

I did not know!!! Thank you for this info!!!

And to the people who say oh its for training ok but the problem is no amount of training will help with narcissism or tyranny!

Don't buy from corporate

Wow can’t believe I’m only hearing about this now

Dustin Hillis, Chair of The Public Safety Committee said he's been to numerous public meetings with multiple chances to speak. "Never have I been to a meeting where I have been told, 'we don't want this.' Wait, what?

Many camps were just raided with defenders receiving terorrist charges. Share this as much as possible!

That 60 Million WILL have to be Payed Back BY the TAX PAYERS = DO NOT BE FOOLED !!! + Those Corporations WILL Receive Tax Breaks =`ing 3x`s that which they donate and it will be 3x`s that for as long as the building Exists !!! = AGAIN = DO NOT BE FOOLED !!!

If that statement about how there hasn't been proper environmental analysis yet, there's gotta be state or federal laws about this. Construction is bound by environmental standards that are established by the EPA and each state develops their own specific codes. In WA there's the Stormwater Management Manual...there's gotta be something equivalent in GA. (quick search annnnd..) "Georgia Stormwater Management Manual" -- I hope there's lawyers working on this too

This similar to military training facility as you can get, for special forces.

I feel like the environmental issue overshadows the other issue: further militarization of police is a very bad idea. especially after recent years.

If you’re creating a police state then you need a “cop city” to train and house them.

Maybe copcity will prevent Atlanta from becoming Portland Part 2

These people are insane. Terrorists. They're also apparently attacking firefighters and people who reside in these rural areas. They're crazy. I support this "Cop City". Let them build.

Those protesters are going to have to go to prison for at least 6 years each. That will give them street cred

THE WICKED JUST CAN'T REST !!!!!!!

10:17 One of them say the quiet part outloud. They're just further militarzing the police further. Georgia is basically ran as a Banana Republic*. And if you live in GA, you know it*.

I wonder if they it takes $90 million, massive campus to teach police to use de-escalation tactics. It seems like a place to train for urban warfare and militarization. We've already got a military.

Why the f*** do they need a 90 million dollar training facility?

What really is telling that that they police do not want an actual dialog on the subject and expect everyone to accept this, from the tax payers, also if you understand the fundamentals of a police state you would understand that cop city is just the start.

Well, it looks like all this backfired for the out of state domestic terrorists who run around in their black jammies.

People protest over police activities, but a newer training facility would help better train officers in mass active shooter situations and safely do their jobs, and make the community safer, with less reliance and deadly force, but they shouldn't destroy a forest to build it.

WHERE IS SENATOR WARNOCK. U HAVE OUR VOTE, TIME TO PAY UP.

Does anyone have a source on Atlanta police intimidating city councilors into voting for cop city?

i dont see why they cant build that training center in an industrial district or a more suitable place some where it wont impact anyone's quality of life. seems simple to me

I think they should build this police city and make it larger so it can accommodate more police training facilities.

So now it's become COP WAR CITY

I wouldn’t be a cop there if they paid me a million

how do you stay 6 months in the woods ? What about your job ?

Can afford all of this, but not body cameras?

Most Black people want more Police.

"we can hear gunfire when its built" take it from a someone from Memphis. either the police do it in a range. or criminals fire off rounds at you.

I propose that all police services be withdrawn entirely from Atlanta for a period of 2 weeks. Anyone who needs emergency assistance can call on BLM or Antifa

To all you CEO's, politicians, lawmakers and judges who decide to overlook communities, pollute rivers and land - not to mention bend and break the same laws you are all suppose to abide by _ you may need to begin to start making some changes. People are fed up and are willing and ready to start doing something about it. .

Senator Warnock could stop it. Bet he won’t!

It’s ridiculous. The reason their are so issues of crime and health among Georgia’s minorities is due to shitty wages and lack of free mental health outreach. Money going to the cops does nothing to dent or slow down crime it’s just another missed opportunity reach out to the disenfranchised in this state. The poor, anxiety-filled masses who need the real support.

Black Wall Street known as a thriving black Mecca Atlanta known as a thriving black Mecca Cop City - URBAN TRAINING CENTER. Pretty interesting on how this is going to turn out in the next couple of years for the city of Atlanta and all of its black millionaires. Just seems like there’s more to this. Most surveilled city with the surveillance financed by the police foundation. Why Atlanta and not Chicago? 54 people were killed in Chicago just 2 weeks ago. Strange

I’m sure there’s a lot of broken down buildings or unused space in the city that the police could use to build a training center instead of cutting the forest down … why would they train police in a facility in middle of woods when they are city police going to b trained to work in the city. I would go to the Muskogee nation if no one has yet to see if they can bring up treaty rights and take it to Supreme Court to try and save the land but I’m sure someone has already tried that but just a ideal if it hasn’t .

The protesters are throwing molotov cocktails? In the forest? Yeah because that'll save the woods.

A shout-out from Boston:do no build cop city. The people that live there have a say in this. It is called a vote. Run a referendum or something. People need to be heard. Not big industry that wants to enslave us. God please see this through.

Notice where they're popping up, check the demographics

Vote for more trees, not violence

Call it what it is: a fortresses used as a base to oppress local society

Funny how these "people" want cops to get better training, but keep the police from getting better training.

For those who oppose cop city, pls explain to me how we get rid of criminals to keep our city safe then?

So we need more police to be trained for as many scenarios as humanely possible but police training facilities are bad?

Fruit bat… cmon now he goes by fruit bat, can’t make this sh*t😂

OMG you repeated the same dozens of times and this is important shiz. Get to the point ☝️

I'm grateful for American police 🎖️

WAIT A MINUTE....I THOUGHT THEY WANTED COPS TO HAVE BETTER TRAINING???

Built “cop city” and make the biggest training facility in the us. They called for better trained officer but protest when they try to built a place to make that happen and then shoot at cop bit don’t want to get shot back at

Boycott Home Depot Delta airlines UPS Chick-fil-A. Etc. who are funding this 😮

Can Humans be Tamed? We need to develop ourselves as human beings beyond our animate level of existence, and it is possible with a certain kind of education. Developing ourselves as human beings means learning and balancing ourselves with the integral laws of nature operating on our lives. If we learn how to positively connect among each other in human society, with altruistic attitudes replacing our current egoistic attitudes, we then develop ourselves beyond the animate level of existence and become human beings in the fullest sense of the term. First, we need to provide for our animate lives, giving our physical bodies the food, sex and family that they require, then after taking care of those essentials, we can begin our human development. We then need to learn who and what we are, where we are from, why we exist, how we can develop ourselves, how we can control our human development, what our attitude to our surrounding society should be, what society’s attitude should be toward us, and how we can develop together harmoniously, i.e. us in relation to society, and society in relation to us. We need to supply ourselves with this development that will make us human beings. Unfortunately, I see nobody understanding what it means to develop a human being, and we thus fail to realize such a process. One of the outcomes of our lack of development into human beings is our inability to understand the younger generation. We become increasingly detached from them, and do not know what will happen with them or how to guide them in a beneficial direction. We thus let life unfold as it does, into a proliferation of problems and crises. Very simply, we need to learn what nature wants from us, and to develop in order to balance with nature’s demands toward us. If we meet those demands, we can then build a harmonious and peaceful world, one that is in balance with nature.

The police kill someone when they shouldn’t have then people don’t want them to be better trained.😂😂😂

As a Canadian it's funny watching the responses to protests based on who is doing the protesting and for what reasons. Here in Canada, when anti-establishment truckers had a peaceful protest outside the nation's capital buildings to protest vaccine mandates, progressives across the country and the left leaning MSM called the protesters insurrectionists and far right extremists likening them to Jan 6 in America. Then when PM Trudeau enacted martial law (without meeting the legal requirements to do so BTW), and had military cops violently clear out the protests, the left across the country gleefully cheered like psychopaths.

" it's all about the Benjamin's"

More police and the ones we have now are not trained right . I dont get it smh

i need to become a cop if imma pay for it might aswell get to use it

The people who are trying to preserve the forest are heroes. We all depend on those trees for the oxygen we breathe. The natural world is essential to human survival. Shame on the politicians who want to channel all that taxpayer money into the pockets of pork barrel profiteers.

why does the media make this a race thing?

And you should also remember this 1 tree could hold ten thousand different species of life. Squirrel snakes bugs and bird's are all going to be evicted for some tyrannical thugs to have a playground. What a shame 😤

Dude has some sorry dogs if gun fire and other noises make his dogs have emotional problems.

$10/year?! 🤯

The people of Atlanta are RIGHT in protesting the destruction of 900 acre's of beautiful, forest land. The community needs to make their voices known so they can drown out the violent protestors actions. The violent outside protestors please go home and the local residents take up signs and PROTEST the police building. The cop's DON'T NEED THIS CENTER as I 'm sure their could be plenty of used building's that can be torn down.

Cop City sounds like a great place. Can't wait to see it.

Black folks can't stick together even if it depend on our lives I don't get it

Nice to see the other side...this was hard to find

It's good that they have a school within that campus for the police academy because although on school shootings that have been taking place they need a place to conduct these operations so that they can be best first responders when something like that happens

The cops have already started cleaning out the verman. The people stand with police.