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Shop NowAnarchists camped out near Atlanta, Georgia, who don’t like enforcement of laws, were infuriated to hear the final vote at the city council meeting on Tuesday. They approved “$31 million in public money for construction of a police and fire training facility.” Cop City will soon be a reality, whether liberals like it or not.
Atlanta approves Cop City
Early Tuesday, June 6, the Atlanta City Council voted to approve “a police and fire training facility, dubbed ‘Cop City‘ by opponents.”
The vote came at the end of “a marathon 16-hour meeting that saw hundreds of people voice their opinion.” Despite all the kicking and screaming, the measure was approved and the facility will be completed as planned.
The training center has been driving liberals insane for months. They got local Atlanta residents behind the efforts to sabotage construction at every turn. Council members got an earful from one upset progressive tree hugger after another. People came out of the woodwork to publicly air their complaints of little public input.
This morning Atlanta City Council in a 11-4 vote approved the transfer of $30M to the Atlanta Police Foundation to build #CopCity.
People were angry after the vote was made. pic.twitter.com/iuy5jctXRW
— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) June 6, 2023
The save the squirrels contingent of conservationists “worry it will carve out a chunk of much-needed forest land.” Anarchists imported from Oregon and Seattle say “it will militarize police forces and contribute to further instances of police brutality.”
To date, “dozens of people have been arrested during protests at the site.” One anarchist, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, “was fatally shot by law enforcement in January as they worked to clear the site.”
Reports note that “the meeting grew tense, with council members calling for a 15-minute recess about nine hours into the proceedings to allow people to calm down.” Meanwhile, some members of the Atlanta City Council “have been threatened.”
Special safety concerns
Because there has already been a lot of violence surrounding the controversial training center, the city took extra precautions ahead of the big council meeting. Atlanta closed “many City Hall offices Monday and temporarily banned liquids, aerosols, gels, creams and pastes inside the building.”
The event kicked off at 1:00 in the afternoon and “stretched into the early morning hours Tuesday, when the council ultimately voted to approve the funding.” This funding “covers about a third of the $90 million estimated construction costs.”
The rest of the money is coming from The Atlanta Police Foundation. They’re a “multimillion-dollar nonprofit that supports the Atlanta Police Department.” They “pledged the remaining money, which will come from philanthropic initiatives, a private loan and new market tax credits.”
A city council meeting in Atlanta was met with fierce opposition from protesters overnight, who urged lawmakers to vote against funding a massive police training center that has become widely known as ‘Cop City.’ pic.twitter.com/vedG2GJ0yi
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 6, 2023
On top of that, they approved a “leaseback agreement” which will bring in “$1.2 million over 30 years.” They have to use that money exclusively to “cover the center’s operational and maintenance expenses, as well as the principal and interest of APF’s $20 million loan.”
According to Mayor Andre Dickens, “Atlanta will be a national model for police reform with the most progressive training and curriculum in the country.” The anarchists may be upset but that’s only because the facility “will boost police morale.”
It’s being “built on forested land that used to be a prison farm.” Only 85 acres of the land will be turned into the training center. That means the green types can’t gripe too much because they’re leaving “265 acres maintained as green space.“
