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Atlanta 'Cop City' Protests Turn Increasingly Violent
2023-11-15
Atlanta Antifa (Defend the Atlanta Forest, attracting activists from across the country and around the world, funded by the usual Progressive foundations) says, “Pay attention to MEEEEE!!!”
[HOT AIR] Things are heating up in Atlanta and I’m not talking about global warming. While the rest of the country is under assault from a spate of huge pro-Hamas antisemitic protests, activists in Georgia are in their second year of protesting a new police and firefighter training center outside of Atlanta that protesters have dubbed "Cop City." Perhaps jealous of all of the attention that the Palestinian protests have been receiving, the Atlanta groups are ramping up their protests in both size and violence. Yesterday a crowd of hundreds showed up at the construction site, which is a sizable number when you consider we’re talking about suburban DeKalb County (population approximately 750,000). But it wasn’t simply the number of protesters that was alarming. It was how they were prepared. Many were not just masked, but wearing goggles and chemical suits. They came prepared to face down the cops at close quarters, and they did. (AP)

Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades Monday to halt a march against building an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center that opponents call “Cop City.”

More than 400 people marched about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from a park to the site in suburban DeKalb County, chanting “stop Cop City” and “Viva, viva Tortuguita,” invoking the nickname of an activist who was fatally shot by state troopers while camping in the woods in protest earlier this year.

A wedge of marchers, including some in masks, goggles and chemical suits intended to protect against tear gas, pushed into a line of officers in riot gear on a road outside the training center site. Officers pushed back and deployed tear gas. One protester threw a canister back at officers.

When the cops deployed their riot shields and formed a line, the rioters charged and smashed into the shields with their signs. When the police were compelled to deploy tear gas, rioters in chemical suits and gas masks picked the canisters up and threw them back at the cops. Some arrests were made and the protesters were eventually dispersed, but this was more than a confrontation. It was a battle. And if their army gets any larger, the police are going to need some serious backup to keep the situation under control.
Related:
Cop City.: 2023-03-08 Rich New Yorker among protesters arrested in Atlanta 'Cop City' violence
Cop City.: 2023-03-07 Only 2 of the 23 Suspects Charged With Domestic Terrorism in ‘Cop City' Attack From Georgia
Cop City.: 2023-01-28 Georgia Governor Kemp declares state of emergency in response to Antifa protest
Related:
Defend the Atlanta Forest: 2023-03-07 Only 2 of the 23 Suspects Charged With Domestic Terrorism in ‘Cop City' Attack From Georgia
Defend the Atlanta Forest: 2023-01-31 Greenfield: How the Atlanta Riots were Funded
Defend the Atlanta Forest: 2023-01-24 Atlanta Antifa terror suspect worked as a production assistant for CNN and is daughter of UK Foreign Office consultant and New Jersey-based Chinese pharma tycoon
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  My DeKalb county taxes fund this and Grady. But I can wander down Buford Hwy and eat relatively cheap from all over the world.

I love Brookhaven
Posted by: Beavis   2023-11-15 23:18  

#10  police and firefighter training center

Hard to pass the crowd control baton and water cannon training opportunity. Don't often get volunteers.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-15 18:03  

#9  If only there was a solution.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-11-15 17:54  

#8  M134's covered by flamethrowers are the answer. Though Mk-19's are also good. Or you can demonstrate the useful of a mine flail tank to deal with zombies.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2023-11-15 16:57  

#7  I remember something about a whiff of the grape, not referring to wine.

maybe start with rock-salt but be prepared to escalate as needed.
Posted by: AlanC   2023-11-15 15:19  

#6  This has been going on for several years — the result of having a Soros DA not letting the police deal with the invasion of their planned training facility.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-11-15 11:26  

#5  I think that concert sniper from Mesquite demonstrated how to break up a crowd.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-15 10:49  

#4  shoot them in the legs with rock-salt if they dont disperse.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-11-15 09:08  

#3  The Protesters have made the case for the need of a Bigger, Better equipped to address a threat, Well trained, Non-Political, Bill of Rights adhering, Law enforcing Police Force. To address Interstate funded subversive $hit like these.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-11-15 07:21  

#2  Gen. William T. Sherman to the white courtesy phone, please. Gen. William T. Sherman...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-11-15 07:19  

#1  An American GAZA ?

This could easily lead to total anarchy and the shutting down of I-98, I-75, I-20, the airport. Something is going on in Atlanta that needs some serious looking in to.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-15 07:14  

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