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The George Floyd protests in Atlanta were a series of protests occurring in Atlanta, the capital and largest city of Georgia, United States.The protests were part of the George Floyd protests and, more broadly, the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, which began shortly after the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
Protests in Atlanta on January 21, 2023, briefly turned violent as some demonstrators threw objects, set police car on fire, and smashed windows of bank buildings with hammers. [194] The Atlanta riot had broad participation from people across the United States.
Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement focused on Atlanta, Georgia, whose goal is to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta.
Police hunting for Deion Patterson after violence unfolded at city’s Northside Hospital Medical Midtown
A memorial in the Atlanta forest commemorating Tortuguita. On the morning of January 18, 2023, Paez Terán was inside a tent at the Stop Cop City encampment. [6] At around 9:00 a.m. that morning, Georgia State Patrol troopers commenced a raid, also known as a Clearing Operation, on the encampment with the intent of removing and clearing illegal encampments.
Atlanta police have released body camera video of the fatal “Cop City” activist shooting which suggests that an officer was struck by friendly fire.. Protester Manuel Esteban Paez Teran was ...
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1967 – 1967 Atlanta riots, June 17–20, Atlanta, Georgia; 1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27, Buffalo, New York; 1967 – 1967 Waterloo riots, July 8–9, Waterloo, Iowa, riots started after a young African-American man was arrested for assault and battery of an elderly white man sweeping the sidewalk in front of his business. [23]