In the wake of the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 and the more recent death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023, both at the hands of police officers, the anti-law enforcement movement in the area has grown significantly stronger. Why are people upset with the "Cop City" installation?Ītlanta is considered to be the heart of the Civil Rights Movement.
The new center is slated to have a mock city, the echo of the "Cop City" name, as well as a "burn building" for firefighters, a firing range, a driving course, stables and pastures for police horses, and kennels for K-9 dogs. The land later became the site for the original Atlanta Police Academy and the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, per the center's website. Activists refer to the forest as the Weelaunee Forest, after the Muscogee (Creek) native tribe that occupied the land up until the 1820s. The proposed facility would be constructed within a 300-acre forest in an unincorporated area of DeKalb County. The center is intended for the Atlanta Police Department. "Cop City" refers to the Public Safety Training Center, an 85-acre compound intended to educate firefighters and 911 operators, as well as police officers, on how to serve the Atlanta communities.
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