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"This facility is planned to train police departments across the Bay Area, with confirmed contracts already reaching Santa Rosa, Richmond, Hercules, Pinole, and beyond. This would be San Pablo’s second police training center, built and financed without voter approval through a $32 million, 30-year loan (causing a $1.8 million annual debt)."

"The proposed 42,000-square-foot complex would serve fewer than 150 city staff and include luxury offices, a drone launch pad, a 20-lane gun range, and private gym/sauna suites."

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/861745/

#CopCity #Fascism #Police #Resist #Democracy

Stop Cop City Bay Area!

NO KINGS = NO COP CITY Teach-In

"This facility is planned to train police departments across the Bay Area, with confirmed contracts already reaching Santa Rosa, Richmond, Hercules, Pinole, and beyond. This would be San Pablo’s second police training center, built and financed without voter approval through a $32 million, 30-year loan (causing a $1.8 million annual debt)."

"The proposed 42,000-square-foot complex would serve fewer than 150 city staff and include luxury offices, a drone launch pad, a 20-lane gun range, and private gym/sauna suites."

"Our collective goal is to repurpose this facility into a community resource hub and youth center that embodies the creativity, resilience, and vision of local residents."

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/861745/

#NoKings #Democracy #Resist #Protest #Police #CopCity #SFBayArea #BayArea #Fascism #BudgetsAreMoralDocuments

Is Organized Labor at Risk Under Trump’s War on Anti-Capitalist “Terrorism”?

Under Trump’s National Security Directive, unions may be threatened if worker actions are deemed a threat to the US.

https://murica.website/2025/10/is-organized-labor-at-risk-under-trumps-war-on-anti-capitalist-terrorism/

Judge throws out RICO conspiracy charges against Stop #CopCity protesters in Georgia. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors

#Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against ‘#CopCity’ protesters

By R.J. RICO
Updated 3:36 PM EDT, September 9, 2025

ATLANTA (AP) — "A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call '#CopCity.'

"Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said he does not believe Republican Attorney General Chris Carr had the authority to secure the 2023 indictments under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO. Experts believe it was the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history.

"The defendants faced a wide variety of allegations — everything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, to supplying food to protesters who were camped in the woods and passing out fliers against a state trooper who had fatally shot a protester. Each defendant faced up to 20 years in prison on the RICO charges.

[...]

"Emerging in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests, the '#StopCopCity' movement gained nationwide recognition as it united anarchists, environmental activists and anti-police protesters against the sprawling training center, which was being built in a wooded area that was ultimately razed in DeKalb County.

"Activists argued that uprooting acres of trees for the facility would exacerbate environmental damage in a flood-prone, majority-Black area while serving as an expensive staging ground for militarized officers to be trained in quelling social movements.

"The training center, a priority of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, opened earlier this year, despite years of protests and millions in cost overruns, some of it due to the damage protesters caused, and police officials’ needs to bolster 24/7 security around the facility."

#StopCopCity #JusticeForTort #SaveTheForest #ACAB #StopCopyCitiesEverywhere

@ossoff.bsky.social @warnock.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov #FirstAmendment #Protests #CopCity #CopCityProtests #Georgia

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Fulton County Judge Says He Will Drop Racketeering Charges in 61 Cop City Cases

The prosecutions were part of a yearslong effort to crush opposition to the construction of a police training center.

https://murica.website/2025/09/fulton-county-judge-says-he-will-drop-racketeering-charges-in-61-cop-city-cases/

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-rico-charges-61-9d0928ca44c5ddc931cd640a8805664a

Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against ‘Cop City’ protesters

#RESIST #CopCity #Atlanta #protest #freespeech #1A #RICO #ACAB #BadCops #BluePussies

It's a start. Would love to see a list of all the dark money that has been poured into that project and who got compensated on the government side. The Atlanta Ormewood Park neighborhood group moderators back on Facebook are freaking out and burying mentions of it and similar news.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/atlanta-police-foundation-cop-city-records

#atlanta #copcity #ormewoodpark #resist #police

Nearly 300 pages of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ records released after first-of-its-kind ruling: #Atlanta #Police Foundation forced to disclose a year after a lawsuit, and could have implications for other cities

#CopCity #FOIA #Georgia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/atlanta-police-foundation-cop-city-records

Sounds like the cops at LA's #CopCity blew themselves up!

Training facility blast kills 3 LA deputies in one of sheriff’s department’s worst losses of life

https://apnews.com/article/facility-sheriff-los-angeles-dead-explosion-da7ad1fdc444bbb7d8c14f33b44333e6

#NoCopCities #ACAB

Nearly Two Years After Being Indicted on #Racketeering Charges in #Georgia, the First of 61 #StopCopCity Defendants is Set to Start Trial Today

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2025 via #WeelauneeTheFree

Repeated Evidentiary Violations, Dismissals of Charges, and More Than 200 Unresolved Motions Have Plagued the State’s Efforts to #Criminalize a Political Movement

ATLANTA, GA – "Nearly two years after being indicted on State racketeering charges in Georgia, the first of 61 Stop #CopCity defendants charged with #RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) will go to trial today, Monday, July 7 at 9 am in Fulton County Superior Court. A press conference will also be held today after the trial adjourns.

"#AylaKing filed for a speedy trial in October 2023, but their case has been held up on appeal while higher courts considered whether Georgia’s speedy trial statute had been violated and whether King’s rights had been denied. Multiple pretrial motions and the possibility of additional motions being filed this morning could delay the start of the trial, but according to Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer, jury selection will begin today.

What: First of 61 Stop Cop City RICO trials for Ayla King and press conference
When: Monday, July 7, 2025: Trial at 9am; Press conference at 4pm or when trial adjourns
Where: Fulton County Superior Court, 185 Central Ave SW, Courtroom 4D

" 'Despite facing two decades in prison—nearly as long as they’ve been alive—Ayla King has bravely pushed for a speedy trial, and will now, after two years, finally see their day in court,' said local community member Evan Grace. Supporters of King argue that the charges are politically motivated. 'We know these charges are meant to bully us into silence, but the movement to Stop Cop City has always taken the courageous path, the one in righteous opposition to the #racist, #classist, violent system of #police and #prisons,' continued Grace. 'King, all the Stop Cop City defendants, and everyone coming out to show support during this trial will prove that the scare tactics they throw at us will never stop us from fighting back.' "

https://weelauneethefree.org/nearly-two-years-after-being-indicted-on-racketeering-charges-in-georgia-the-first-of-61-stop-cop-city-defendants-is-set-to-start-trial-today/

#CopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #WeelauneeForest #ACAB #RememberTort #JusticeForTort #JusticeForTortugita #AtlantaGeorgia #SystemicRacism #SaveTheForests #NoCopCities

The First of the Stop Cop City RICO Cases Goes to Trial

https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/06/the-trial-of-ayla-king-the-first-of-the-stop-cop-city-rico-cases-goes-to-trial

#CopCity

Forests are places with specific meanings. They are also often sites where those meanings are contested. These conflicts and struggles over meaning are key to forest fates.

https://www.briefecology.com/p/mapping-forest-meaning-in-the-time

#geography #ecology #forests #conservation #copcity

Atlanta Police Foundation is a 'private' entity whose only purpose is to support cops by giving them money and materials. A lot of times used to do things police departments can't do openly

#open #foia #atlanta #georgia #cops #copcity #police

https://decaturish.com/2025/06/atlanta-police-foundation-ordered-to-comply-with-open-records-requests-over-cop-city-documents/

Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIAs), or Open Records Act Requests (ORARs) in this context, are vital tools for journalists and the public to access government information and ensure transparency. While it’s unfortunate that media outlets had to go to trial to obtain crucial details about #CopCity, the eventual release of these records marks a significant victory for accountability and the public’s right to know.

#Georgia #Atlanta #ga #atl #USpol

https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-police-foundation-ordered-to-comply-with-open-records-requests-over-cop-city-documents/

Defendants in Georgia ‘Cop City’ case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue

By R.J. RICO
Updated 12:26 AM EDT, May 12, 2025

ATLANTA (AP) — "Single mother Priscilla Grim lost her job. Aspiring writer Julia Dupuis frequently stares at the bedroom ceiling, numb. Geography and environmental studies researcher Hannah Kass is worried about her career prospects after she graduates from her Ph.D. program.

"The three are among 61 defendants accused by Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr of participating in a yearslong racketeering conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility just outside Atlanta that critics pejoratively call 'Cop City.'

"Their cases are at a standstill, 20 months after being indicted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, which is likely the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history, experts say.

"Trial for five of the defendants was supposed to start last year but got bogged down in procedural issues. The judge overseeing the case then moved to another court. A new judge has set a status hearing for Wednesday.

"The delays have left people in limbo, facing charges carrying up to 20 years behind bars for what they maintain was #LegitimateProtest, not #DomesticTerrorism. The case also has suppressed a movement that brought together hundreds of #activists to protect a wooded patch of land that ultimately was razed for the recently completed $118 million, 85-acre (34-hectare) project.

"Officials say the project is sorely needed to replace outdated facilities and boost officers’ morale. Opponents say it will be a training ground for a #MilitarizedPolice force and its construction has worsened #environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area.

"Protests escalated after the fatal 2023 shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as #Tortuguita, who was camping near the site when authorities launched a clearing operation. Officials said they killed Tortuguita, 26, after the activist shot and wounded a trooper from inside a tent.

"A family-commissioned autopsy concluded Tortuguita was killed with their hands in the air, but a prosecutor found the officers’ use of force was 'objectively reasonable.' "

#ACAB #StopCopCityQueens #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #JusticeForTort #USPol #StopCopCity #WeelauneeForest #DefendTheForest #CopCity #SilencingDissent #CiminalizingDissent #MilitarizedPolice

#copcity

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