Opposition Grows to Atlanta "Cop City" as More Forest Defenders Charged with Domestic Terrorism

Prosecutors in Atlanta have charged 23 forest defenders with "domestic terrorism" after their arrests late Sunday at a festival near the site of Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in the Weelaunee Forest. The arrests followed clashes between police and protesters on Sunday afternoon and came less than two months after Atlanta police shot and killed Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán, a 26-year-old environmental defender. For an update on the growing movement to fight Cop City in Atlanta, we're joined by Micah Herskind, a local community organizer, and Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders.
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[@jasonfirewalker3595]

Killing a forest to train murderers.

[@melissaverduin3693]

No Cop City in Atlanta, Georgia! No Cop City ANYWHERE! ✊🏻

[@corinnapetry65]

This is so infuriating. The effort to create Cop City is colonialism, deforestation, criminalization of a community ... and on and on.

[@andywomack3414]

Simply the normal functioning of capitalist fascism.

[@kevinh6679]

@@andywomack3414 😂

[@grahamjones5400]

It's a government war against the civilian population.

[@dianahill5116]

Consider the the vast amount of empty malls; that can be refurbished. _____ The training facility doesn't have to be located in one location.

[@Owondr]

@@dianahill5116 private party

[@dulynoted2427]

Nothing could sound more insidiously threatening and ominous, than the words "Cop City".

[@tmnt10000]

Or that Chaz place

[@zippymufo9765]

I like it better than "LeftTard Forest Camp"

[@kevinh6679]

@@zippymufo9765 Troll meadows? 😈🤡😂

[@davewhitcomb7700]

Some of the instructors at cop city will be from the IDF! They'll teach cops to deal with Americans the way they deal with Palestinians!

[@thomasholt63]

Patriotic law enforcement agencies is the key for a safer country

[@iainherridge6253]

One of the first steps to installing fascism is to have a privatised police force!

[@aaronhow2568]

These cops are assaulting innocent people. This is so terrible of the cops. There, I was polite but fair in my remarks this time.

[@WAEVOICE]

"Innocent" must have a new meaning. If so, the cops are also innocent.

[@aaronhow2568]

@@WAEVOICE Okay then. Sure. Whatever you say.

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

I oppose "Cop City!!" Shame on those cops!!! Take their guns away until they wise up!!

[@judydoucette8762]

Thank you Creek Nation, thank you a thousand fold. We all saw the police taking down a private property fence? There are laws, police need to obey as well.

[@Xavier-uknonada]

Look at those people. They ignore her to her face. Those are our leaders. Shame on them. Applause on your bravery and for standing up to those ignorants

[@thomasholt63]

Atlanta Georgia has been off the chain since I moved back down from Chicago to take care of my mom

[@Saturnia2014]

​@@thomasholt63 Atlanta is basically the Chicago of the South

[@isisbeck2374]

They're not Ignorant they're IGNANT!!!! 😆 🤣 💯

[@isisbeck2374]

@@Saturnia2014 it's flucked up everywhere including where I live hell you gotta kid unaliving their parents and siblings, shutting down schools 4 threats of shooting or bombing up schools or Safeway, parent deleting their kids, a host of s@x offenders all over the place, and I live in Fremont Hills, near secluded homes and gated communities it's a damn fool up here they should bring it near all the same swept under the neighborhoods. They're taking our money and building fake azz buildings to use to kick down doors, hell down the hill there's plenty of shyt going homeless hunger children and Veterans going on there they can take our money and use on a real city fluck cop city. All these people with tents in the rain we had to evacuate what them that are homeless??? Use that damn money for them.

[@vidascupcakes]

Let's also talk about how they're going to bring Israell soldiers to train there as well.

[@vidascupcakes]

@Seek and Destroy Thank you for Clarifying. I see you deleted your message that was totally in agreement with me. A lot of it comes down to Palestine and Israel. Christian's protecting their motherland?

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

and kops and soldiers from around the world. This is international

[@kevinh6679]

@@morbidmanuscript9324 Biblical 😆 God bless

[@petestanton1945]

amazing who a fascist will serve these days

[@user-ti3vp9mt3z]

I suspect their plans include directed energy weapons training - microwave radiation weapons that DHS and select police are secretly using on US citizens.

[@MrDXRamirez]

What right does the City Council have to let the land be sold for commercial development if the 380 acres of forest land is property not owned by the city council?

[@connectingthekingdom]

It's called stealing!! Government has stole land from Indians and black people over hundreds of years and it proves its still happening 🙄

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

US long and bloody history of disrespecting indigenous treaty rights

[@dianahill5116]

Consider the numerous vacant malls; that can be refurbished, for training. _____ The training facility doesn't need to be located in one location.

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

@@dianahill5116 It’s in an area that is more rural than others and the property is more affordable. Try using your brain.

[@FatLava]

the possibility of noise pollution was also a factor for why a rural site was selected

[@andoarike2843]

As Bertolt Brecht wrote: “You can't write poems about trees when the forest is full of police.”

[@thomasholt63]

😂

[@thomasholt63]

Alot of smokey the bears 🐻 in the woods

[@morrisonreed1]

or angry protesters

[@adel19997]

While "citizens" behavior & actions are VIOLENT

[@peterkilbridge6523]

Alas! We need police in this country, and Antifa has cleverly cherry-picked this site to draw some dang fool wanna-be "ecologists" on to their side. The Antifa terrorists prove that we need police.

[@kesart8378]

When you vigourously train people for combat, don't be surprised if they act in a violent manner.

[@PurpleDuneEfa]

cop 40%

[@jina1979]

And stop wasting milk

[@aliceinwonder8978]

They know. They want police to be violent

[@thomasholt63]

@@jina1979 yeah as I recall growing up in Atlanta Georgia I remember that there was a dairy farm on that property back in the day thanks@JINA

[@adel19997]

While "citizens" behavior & actions are VIOLENT

[@belindalovins9036]

$90 million would go to a long wait to build something to help the people!!!

[@PahaSapaRepresentative23]

The OTECI SAKOWIN ( seven bands of the Lakota, Nakota, Dakota) stand with the people of the Movement to protect our Mother Earth and the natural resources. Shame on the city council who did not listen to the tribal nations people. We are all related..... mitakuyaye oyasin

[@adel19997]

While "citizens" behavior & actions are VIOLENT

[@lanouek]

​@Day Vision both are terrible

[@bond2truth617]

@@adel19997 Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer-able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[@eilenekellogg9356]

Not in their eyes.

[@Noway-il9up]

If we were allowed to throw Molotovs at camp we woulda stopped that fucking pipeline

[@solidaritytime3650]

Pigs don't belong in the forest. Get them back on the farm

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

then to the slaughterhouse

[@adel19997]

While "citizens" behavior & actions are VIOLENT

[@terryhall4219]

Why do public servants need a military compound in the woods?

[@GhostlyGhille]

For live fire excersizes away from the public? Or do yall want untrained incapable officers.

[@gilharrison8696]

Because crime and unrest, in general, are getting out of control there, of course the police would do this, the same thing going on all over the country.

[@babydoll6280]

They are doing things like this in the majority black areas. The county in Mississippi and now Atlanta.

[@elijahjudah8195]

ATLANTA IS A DEMOCRAT CITY!!! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!

[@ClassicCliche4706]

Your point? At the end of the day, both the Democratic and Republican Party are grossly failing us

[@kenjiwebb1509]

The Atlanta City Council should all resign in shame.

[@kevinh6679]

Agreed, along with the state legislature,,,, but they “ gittin paid !” 😂

[@Hazegod]

They all need to be ousted once they're up for re-election.

[@khayeelwilson-el5370]

Or better yet, go to jail!

[@bjdefilippo447]

How on earth is it terrorism to stand up on behalf of the forest, which is public land, and peacefully protest the land being used for such an unnecessary and detrimental purpose? The police, once again, arrested innocent people who were doing nothing more than celebrating the forest and, through music, bring attention to this misuse of public land. Shame on Atlanta PD and prosecutors.

[@kevinh6679]

Georgia is a police state. Thank you

[@Marxist2]

Rev, Keyana Jones, from Chicago, I stand with you & know that people around the country & the world support you & your movement. We all need basic human rights which include, breathing clean and & drinking clean water; plus police violence is unacceptable anywhere.

[@seva4411]

It’s not the police who are doing all the shooting, wilding, crime and carjacking in Chicago.

[@jakemensik2842]

Yeah, especially vioence on the part of left leaning terrorists. I think police departments should actually shut down in democrat controlled cities and see how well that goes. It would be anarchy. Honestly, most lib cities deserve it.

[@adel19997]

While "citizens" behavior & actions are VIOLENT

[@patwilliams6579]

Don't dial 911 when a drunk driver hits your family head on. Just sit there all call this guy to help you. Stoopid azz.

[@luanp.hasnay2600]

Criminal Cop City, a training center for dangerous incompetence and policing terror.

[@leonardkellum6984]

why destroy a forest? empty malls, lots where businesses that went overseas that are now vacant?

[@aandyherr817]

The plot of land it was being built on before being touched and destroyed, was empty. There was no trees being cut: Why reuse malls? You’ll get mad about that too I don’t understand all I see is burning and looting and trying to kill cops. Explain to me how burning shit made this better

[@sherylbeasley4938]

​@@aandyherr817 Would you agree that recycling is a good thing.

[@leonardkellum6984]

@hollywood6471 u never heard of NAFTA or seen the tags that say made in china?

[@Human_Herbivore]

Anti protesters often tell me that people protesting should not break the law but that is impossible when the law is changed to criminalise.

[@mof5490]

When was it legal to vandalize and burn down property?

[@Human_Herbivore]

@@mof5490 missed my point and that of the video.

[@mof5490]

@@Human_Herbivore ok, what is your point?

[@Human_Herbivore]

@@mof5490 that these protesters weren't breaking the law until the authorities decided they were.

[@mof5490]

@@Human_Herbivore they burned down a construction vehicle, vandalized property, threw fire works and objects at police. When has this ever been legal?

[@ronrogers876]

Cop City sounds like a really big contract. A lot of $ and a lot of juicy kickbacks.

[@demonorse]

Good job people! Protect the forest!

[@deborahd.7281]

The United States has been increasing forestation recently according to Wikipedia and the United Nations..."In the United States, deforestation was an ongoing process until recently. Between 2010 and 2020, the US forests increased 0.03% annually, according to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)"

[@craigb8228]

I am sure that they'd appreciate it if you would find them a lot that size that needed urban renewal.

[@demonorse]

@@deborahd.7281 Do you understand what they're planting? That is a meaningless statistic. Unless you're using it for comfort.

[@kevinh6679]

@AmericaIsWorthIt Cheering Cop City? No offense

[@dianahill5116]

Consider the numerous empty malls; that can be refurbished. _____ The training facility doesn't have to be located in one location.

[@Soma81]

Take the opposition neutralize them and let them wake up in Ukraine where they can serve the rest of their life

[@bullvinetheband7260]

People have the right to do this I don't know why their cracking down on them.

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

No you don't have the right to occupy private land and throw bombs and shoot cops.

[@jakecopeland7845]

Hell, I've seen Georgia state troopers sitting in Georgia power office doing nothing but on their phones every time I went in there. They fired the armed security guard who used to be there. This was in metro Atlanta

[@milderdcalhoun7913]

Atlanta keep standing strong as a connected Nation!! I stand with everyone too, I have family there, NO COP CITY!!!

[@susanafinkbeiner1913]

Bruh

[@wildlightarts]

Rounding up random people while wearing weapons and charging at attendees of a music festival and treating them like animals escaping a cattle ranch seems a bit more like terrorism.

[@badger1296]

Is this what a democracy looks like?

[@kevinh6679]

Badger No . This is the NWO 😈🩸

[@saywhat9158]

I would say the last thing the police need is to train like a military force in a “City” as opposed to learning how to community police. This puts them in a mindset of us against them rather than us for them. Not to mention, this just instills more distrust in the people that the cops are becoming an oppressive force for elitists to extend power rather than a public service for safety and well being and the fact that a person has already died over this tends to confirm an aggressive intent rather than appeasement to gain trust.

[@jakemensik2842]

It's too late for community policing. The democrats have created a social divide between law abiding folks, and criminals like these antifa and blm terrorists. They absolutely need to be trained for this. People attack cops on the regular now, and the cops are supposed to just look at that and be like "Yeah, we need more relaxed patrols and less arrests blah blah blah? No. They need to stand up for themselves and the rest of the sane community. I mean look at it. They are shooting fireworks and molotovs into the police. And you want the police to do nothing about it lol? This is why we need a strong leader like Trump back. To restore law and order in this country.

[@TheSnerggly]

Good points.

[@greenthumb8266]

You took the words right out of my mind, and to think of all the shopping malls and what not sitting around empty that could be used for training facilities, they don’t have to have a HUGE intimidating military type compound, it will destroy forests and create more distrust and division !

[@thomasholt63]

That's what it's all about and that's what 99% of the people who are against this being built

[@trailerparksupervisor5378]

​@@greenthumb8266 They're not destroying a forest. They're using an 85 acre plot from a 400 acre plot. A plot that is largely populated by invasive vegetation. Malls are private property, and buying them is far more expensive, and then you still have to rebuild your facility. This is far cheaper and easier. The site is going to be used to train fire, EMS, and also police. All the people spouting about urban combat training center and training like a military force need a lobotomy.

[@bluzcompany2293]

You know what's really crazy there are billions of acres of land that's empty with out a single tree on it much less a forest ,that they can build on ...

[@aandyherr817]

Almost as if There was a plot of land… With no forest or trees on it… And they burned literal machiens and polluted the idea and tried killing law enforcement

[@AaravMehtaCovers]

do your own research the land was already empty. Don’t listen to this bullshit

[@bluzcompany2293]

@@AaravMehtaCovers oh really

[@petestanton1945]

Anti-Fascists' Last Stand

[@goddessnoele]

If you are a registered voter in The City of Atlanta and have been since 10/04/21 sign the petition to get Cop City referendum on the ballot in November. The petition is being circulated now. They need 68K signatures by August 13th. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

[@abbanjo13]

Great to see such a diverse and wide ranging movement combining many peoples and many tactics. It's heart warming to see and it makes the likelihood of cop city never being built all that more likely.

[@bezii558]

God bless the indigenous and God bless black and brown ppl

[@yourmother2739]

Bless all people that fight back.

[@bezii558]

@@yourmother2739 Yea them too

[@Marxist2]

I am calling for Justice for Tortuguita.

[@kevinh6679]

@Seek and Destroy Troll fever ! Catch it .. 😈🤡😂 Is there a vaccine for troll fever?

[@kevinh6679]

@Seek and Destroy Who told you “ dude shot a cop ? “ Thank you I’m being shadow banned

[@Leonora485]

@Seek and Destroy Some people believe everything disseminated through the media. So glad that I have a mind that processes information; eating the meat and disposing of the bones.

[@kevinh6679]

@Seek and Destroy 🤡😂 Common knowledge at troll central ? Thank you You know the Klan ?

[@zippymufo9765]

@@Leonora485 And some people believe anything some propaganda channel tells them. Sounds like you're just as lacking in critical thinking as those who accept mainstream narratives.

[@JAHFREEALL]

Critical reporting ☀️ Thank you, Democracy Now 💚

[@sandilobianco6734]

Doesn’t Georgia has military bases the police can train on?

[@soignethereal-qg1wl]

There is plenty of forest land in North Georgia, in sparsely populated areas. Why construct a training facility in the middle of an urban area? It seems like they are not just training but intend to use the surrounding community as guinea pigs for target practice.

[@thomasholt63]

Yeah that's what I said North Georgia has alot of land for sure

[@soignethereal-qg1wl]

@seekanddestroy Apparently, they have to build it somewhere in the forest. Therefore, they should pick a sparsely populated area, away from the city. East Atlanta has very little forest land.

[@kevinh6679]

@@soignethereal-qg1wl Who’s “ they ?” Thank you

[@lornaparkes7102]

Correct

[@artvandelay8030]

Preserve forest lands! ❤🤍💙💚

[@dianahill5116]

Consider the numerous empty malls; that can be refurbished. _____ The training facility doesn't have to be located in one location.

[@yeoldeseawitch]

@@dianahill5116 this was never about deescalation tactics training this was about militaristic training with assault rifles and explosives.

[@isisbeck2374]

I stand with them stand against cop city. They can spend our money on a fake city but won't take our money and put it to us for homeless children and Veterans and feed the hungry. I'm so so sick of their shyt. They gotta get tf outta there. I like the way she served them that paper 😆 🤣 😂

[@aaronhow2568]

This vid should have way more views. It is one of the very few still showing the truth of what is going on in these countries. It has become a police state.

[@thelostconfederacy]

There are alot of lies being told about American history. 1. The Americans are the so called (Black People). 2. The Americans had towns, and defense for invaders 3. The Americans that were removed during (The Indian Removal Act) to Indian Territory also built Greenwood aka (Black Wall Street), and many over towns and Districts (not the Asian Mongoloid). 4. Those Americans that didn't leave South East America have been under (unlawful) wars ever since 1830. 5. The Americans that didn't leave were placed under ( Special Field Orders) by the U.S. military which made them (Prisoner Of War) not slaves from Africa. This lie about who the American is will stop. The U.S. Government has documented it's history on the land known as America. Anyone who wants to challenge this position feel free to engage with our channel ( The Lost Confederacy).

[@TS-ik7ci]

Why are they called "Forest Defenders" and not "Marxist Revolutionaries". This has nothing to do with the environment...

[@opt4heavenhearts4thehomele27]

Interesting NO ONE mentioned they are protesting land swap NOT cop training. If they build it elsewhere then no one would protest. Why didn’t they just change location for building site?

[@nacarreira777]

Yes. Why destroy a forest when there are vacant malls and buildings to use?

[@andywomack3414]

It has to do with displaying power. This is a neoliberal bipartisan show of controlling force.

[@andywomack3414]

@@nacarreira777 It's about power. Those who rule our society need to make sure that their power is absolutely expressed. It's how our neoliberal capitalist system preserves itself by evolving fascism.

[@Apelles42069]

No cop city anywhere will be built.

[@Nixon085]

Cowards strike from where you don't expect it, they like there victims distracted

[@glascoebowie9359]

You can build all the luxury and fancy materials you can imagine but if you're behavior is unjust your eventually go straight to hail.

[@thomasholt63]

CORRECT HELL AWAITS ALOT OF DEMONIC SOULS FOR SURE!!!

[@kevinh6679]

@@thomasholt63 True ! 😂

[@heresjohnny23.7]

Stop cop city!!!! Justice for Tort!

[@chrismorring3352]

That jackass shot a cop and got his reward in return. Nice job Police.

[@lindawellner5415]

Shame on Atlanta's city council

[@thomasholt63]

They love food buffets and I do too and 1 went to the same high school as I and the last mayor did also with her beautiful intelligent self see we are smart we need cop city for sure

[@Soma81]

Shame on your mother for not raising you better

[@forrestwebb8590]

Protest is legal, rioting is not, if you go to jail, to bad.

[@stephaniesass5173]

Shut it down and vote the council members in support of it.

[@petestanton1945]

fake democracy

[@paidsurveys6561]

If everyone at these events was practicing their rights to bear arms ....

[@forurinfo8452]

Get rid of every city council member that voted for cop City and the Mayer and the governor. Remember they are all elected officials.

[@seventhcompactor1505]

Wrong Thank them We want well trained officers

[@forurinfo8452]

We all know by your comment you don't value life, nor is it cute. Let us be intellectually honest, just wait when government is infringing on your space and community or your quality of life whit a hidden agenda. This isn't about well trained police. We are already arresting, and killing thousands, and trainings isn't what is needed. Just because it is acceptable in some circles doesn't mean it is right or a good thing. Open your mind, and get some humanity.

[@forurinfo8452]

@Seek and Destroy / this is my last communication with you. I see that you are just talking nonsense, and don't even understand, and don't even know the nuances of your own argument. Now I see your just being foolish. Educate yourself and stop spreading false misleading untruths. Your ignorance is before you.

[@seventhcompactor1505]

@@forurinfo8452 Wanting more police officers is about valuing life !! Look at the crime statistics. We need more officers, who are trained even more.

[@seventhcompactor1505]

@@forurinfo8452 My space and community doesn't commit crimes are sick rates, and we have a great symbiotic relationship with our officers. We all want peace.

[@nathanielgreer2764]

It’s a good thing that those peaceful protesters that had absolutely nonviolent intentions happened to find all of those fireworks.

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

They also opened fire almost killing a police officer a few months ago. These people are violent extremists

[@sheilalamothe9936]

Love this they can't clean Alta up so they go after people that don't have guns wow big men and women 👏

[@timtebone1843]

Anybody putting terror charges on protesters should be in prison for life

[@sampedro9316]

Lol

[@timtebone1843]

@@sampedro9316 . Lol

[@NOTIME4THIS]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

[@tothelighthouse9843]

These men & women are heroes that history will laud.

[@wildlightarts]

I would love to hear from the women who brought notice to the meeting, whom the "officials and suits" rudely ignored and dismissed. Can and Will DN! do an interview of the indigenous women who returned to their homeland?

[@ChadwickTheChad]

Ghetto people don't like being held accountable for their actions.

[@Laura-LaFauve]

Thank you. That answered a lot of my questions.

[@blocpredator8582]

Those charges are based on reports that came from officers that the facilities would benefit this is either corruption which is usually the United States or conflict of interest by the cops that benefit from this project

[@Loku242]

Either way they're making so much chaos and noise that it can't be ignored. No doubt they've pissed off many key players with greater power than them, such as elected officials above them or the businesses who's bottom lines all tanked because no one wants to go near their shops when the bullets are flying everywhere. Individually our responsibility is to stay alive. I predict this problem will solve itself. Cops can't go wholesale violent and have that murderous reputation without it coming back to haunt them. I predict campaign landslides for candidates that run on the promise to muzzle the state's rabid law dogs, not to mention the other key players, aka the businesses, companies, and corporations will also devote their resources toward the same goal. Having a notoriously murderous police department can cripple a city, which will piss off the much bigger fish mentioned above. Oh yeah and the more outrageously violent the cops get means a higher chance of them pissing off the entire country again. A few thousand cops with all the guns in the world aren't enough to deal with millions of pissed off citizens tired of burying loved ones and getting shot at.

[@Loku242]

@Seek and Destroy I suppose you're right about that. I can't fix the big problems like this anymore than you can. Its the youtube comments section, no one is bringing about any real action here. Sometimes its just fun to rant with full knowledge no one is gonna give a shit, except for people like you who bothered to put the energy into pointing out this keyboard warrior isn't gonna do anything, as if that wasn't obvious.

[@francisarledge9981]

We need a country wide protest at every court house. Let's pick a date!!

[@jina1979]

Schedule Ghostbusters and Mrs Pac-Man

[@kevinh6679]

@@jina1979 I don’t get it ? Please explain. Thank you

[@Soma81]

You should ask your mom I'm sure she will allow you once you have a job and no longer depend on her

[@francisarledge9981]

@@Soma81 my mom died when I was 6 so go fuck yourself!!

[@kevinh6679]

@@jina1979 🤡😂

[@benfranklin1770]

The words " Cop City " is frightning as hell...Atlanta do what you can to resist...

[@morrisonreed1]

she skips right over the fact that a cop was shot before the protester was , so lame

[@thorenjohn]

The police in Portland over-reacted this way to George Floyd protestors, eventually causing protesters to become destructive.

[@GhostlyGhille]

Festival ? They set things on fire, and launched fireworks at officers...

[@MangoSlade.]

Black people are indigenous people!!

[@youtubetroll6620]

instead of building a cop city, why don't they build a homeless city for the processing of homeless people, then there would be no crime...

[@glascoebowie9359]

Who's budget the ruling classes? Energy and material space and time infinity. Who's budget

[@WithoutJustice]

Defund the police? No. ABOLISH THE POLICE

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

Amen

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

@@johnsmith7140 “John smith” shill

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

@@johnsmith7140 go away, shill

[@charlesrunser6367]

You don't need 85 acres to to teach de-escalation and constitutional rights

[@sampedro9316]

There are gangs to deal with.

[@TheTruthlady]

This fight is inevitably coming to your city soon! They will try this everywhere..along with their idea of 15 minute cities. Pay attention!

[@WAEVOICE]

Forest defenders??? The spin-doctors must have had a field-day with that one.

[@petestanton1945]

Holy cow IDF'S gonna make bank training those boys

[@bloggerty-schmoo2698]

This is how they have to live over in the UK. No amendments and no concept of "we the people" over there.

[@bettyjones973]

Fight

[@lindawellner5415]

Police are already paramilitary

[@judyrayford656]

you know their is ALWAYS A PLANT in any group GET REAL

[@WAEVOICE]

Too bad that notion goes out the window when it comes to vandals at a particular federal site on a particular day.

[@ashleymcclave1374]

SPOT COP CITY AT ALL COST , BY MEANS NECESSARY. FTP

[@EVtripper]

International opposition to the American Police State of Violence. Atlanta has to now realize that this isn't going to go away.

[@TI.T.O]

I’m saddened to see how quickly police are willing to kill native peoples, being native myself, I continue to deal with really shitty police officers. But seeing native people all over the americas starting to stand up and defend this planet makes me so happy that there’s a good fight going on in Georgia. You have my support! Thank you Democracy Now for reporting this. I wouldn’t have picked it up any of my other sources of information

[@greenybros]

Amy Goodman never interviewing regular folks,,,,what does that mean ? most people wont care.

[@alessandrapirelli7040]

We need more cops and more Cop Cities!! WE DON'T WANT VIOLENT FELONY PERP PROTESTORS IN OUR COUNTRY!!

[@thomasholt63]

Yeah build one in each city for sure all 50th states

[@kevinh6679]

AP Which country are you in ! Thank you

[@thomasholt63]

@Seek and Destroy yeah 😂

[@thomaseaster4917]

U mean cops

[@kevinh6679]

@Seek and Destroy What do the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa have to do with each other? 😂 No offense

[@thomasforest9752]

This show has gone down hill and it's embarrassing to watch such overwhelming biases.

[@stevedavis2541]

How many 6th Jan insurrectionist got charged with domestic terrorism? Lawful protest should be protected by the Co situation. The strategy used by authorities is very authoritarian and seen in Russia and North Korea.

[@pattirockgarden4423]

Hurray for the Muskogee people! 👏👏👏👏

[@We.Are.Legion.]

There we go... the black/indigenous movement starts with a whisper and a chuckle. United we are standing, when they keep us divided, we stay fallen.

[@thesocialjourney]

UCC 1-308 RESERVATION OF RIGHTS

[@copblocker4654]

STOP COP CITY

[@mrcarpenter9623]

Keyanna Jones. I believe the black community needs to give her a leadership role in Congress.

[@montanamayfield]

I don't understand anything you build in the USA destroys Forest Land including a policing training facility in Atlanta. The government will build this policing facility as the Legislators have approved this facility. Change your legislators.

[@sonjaleesloth]

I will never buy Coca-Cola again.

[@thomasholt63]

Why I love it and I don't suppose to drink it because I am a diabetic but I still sometimes sneak a six pack or more like a 12 pack in once a month 😂

[@Commons_usa]

This is what our parents and grandparents want for us. For the youth to suffer toralitarionism and high taxes. Insane national debt.

[@p.a.andrews7772]

I'm sure there's plenty of room and other locations that wouldn't destroy the environment and habitat .I it's obvious these people are destroying some of the only green spaces left around that City.

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

They are using an old prison farm that hasn't been used in decades. It's not a forest, it's cleared land that has some skinny, very young trees growing on it.

[@MorusAlba1975]

"The city council voted to approve cop city" Ah, so it was democratically decided after all. Democracy Now!

[@paulpugh2480]

We should get back to our roots, A REPUBLIC !

[@DanS-js4ws]

Opposition is dwindling

[@bettyjones973]

Indigenous just put a curse on that land!! Because of the blood that was shed, cop city is a cursed anyway but someone close to this movement and know voodoo or black magic needs to seal this curse.