Protests over the construction of a new 85-acre training center for police and firefighters in Atlanta have spread well beyond the city's limits, and are gaining momentum across the country.
that the center represents a necessary investment in public safety that's been decades in the making.
"Cop City, if built, will set a new precedent for police militarization, not just in Atlanta, not just in the Southeast, not just in the country, but in the world," Jonah Sylvester, an organizer with the Weelaunee Defense Society of Pittsburgh, told theIn 2020, the city of Pittsburgh acquired a former hospital from the federal government, at no cost, in order to build a regional policing and first responder training center, similar to the one proposed in Atlanta.
“Good community policing depends on high-quality training,” Bryan Thomas, a spokesperson for Dickens’s office, told Yahoo News.
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