Atlanta ‘Cop City’ Protests Turn Increasingly Violent

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)Read More