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On June 13, Atlanta's police chief Erika Shields resigned; Mayor Bottoms said Shields had resigned in the hope that "the city may move forward with urgency and [rebuild] the trust so desperately needed throughout our communities." [69] [70] [71] On June 15, Mayor Bottoms ordered the Atlanta Police Department to overhaul its use-of-force ...
Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta.
The Kodak Building and the Atlanta Eagle on Ponce de Leon Avenue, 2021. The Atlanta Eagle is a gay bar that was established in Atlanta in the mid-1980s. [note 1] According to a 2020 report by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the bar had become "a place of prominence in the LGBTQ community, significant as a site for public social interaction".
Authorities arrested five activists, including two wearing clerical attire, who chained themselves to a bulldozer Thursday to halt construction of an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training ...
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, a Democrat, has said the activists looking to stop the project oppose “the very things that they asked for — more police training.”
Khalid Kamau, the mayor of the city of South Fulton in metropolitan Atlanta, was charged with criminal trespassing and first-degree burglary. He was released the same day on $11,000 in surety bonds.
In September 2021, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, accompanied by Dave Wilkinson, CEO of the Atlanta Police Foundation, said the site had been selected to house a training center, as it was deemed the only suitable location available to the city. [11] Bottoms had previously endorsed the use of the site in spring of the same year. [11]
On July 8, 2011, it was reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that six police officers were fired for lying about events concerning the Atlanta Eagle police raid (which targeted the Atlanta Eagle, a gay bar). In June 2011, a 343-page report was released that details how 16 officers lied or destroyed evidence when asked about the raid on ...