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headlines. community environmental activists have for months sought to block construction of the facility, as highlighted by a recent a j plus film. occupying this force is how activists are resisting the construction of a $90000000.00 state of the art police training center protesters call cops, city. the facility will be developed on one of the largest green spaces in se, atlanta, which has a history of oppression. didn't want to go and bolos everything in the right. the history the way, the way they want to write it. the fate of the force is up in the air as a police and force defenders both refused to back down are joining us today from atlanta canal franklin, his executive director of community movement builders that to collect of a black community residence and activists advocating for neighborhoods next to the plant facility, also dawning from atlanta is jacqueline eccles, co founder of the self river watershed alliance. that is trying to protect the land in which the plan police center will be built. and joining us from new york ana

cook is a film producer ha, plus, who's been covering the story. also, you are at the table. if you're watching this on youtube right now, see the common thing over there. we have a lie producer there waiting to get your comments to me so i can get him to our guest. so i invite you to be a part of the screen with me today. or let's start with anna anna, what drew you to the story? yeah, no this there has been a lot of attention on cop city and had been bubbling since, especially after 2020 the nation wide black lives matter protest where people not just in atlanta but nationwide called for a d fund and the police an end to police brutality but then in atlanta, we saw with this a post facility, an increase in funding for the police. and so that do a lot of attention. obviously a lot of opposition and people have peacefully occupy the forest as a way to protest against building this facility. but i think what's so interesting

about this cop city is odd, it's drawing a lot of national and international solidarity and attention because it's not the intersection of environmental as and no racial justice indigenous rights. it's also just bought a lot of grass roots, community activism to try to protect the forest. you know, they want to nurture and preserve this park, this public park in forest for the benefit of the community. well, let's start with as close as a to the communities we can, and then we'll work our way out through these issues. i want to play a clip from your film. this is actually with the local resident president to live near by see they were blindsided by the cities planned to expand the massive police facility lubbock. your no no one has reached out to me and i do see when asked for votes to them and may not be a force but to some i. yes it does me some the same is true, one man jumped is another man's treasure. but these, in a view the same, it is only we live in the community. there lived a community,

i don't care what they care. they don't care. and all the sayings to the counselor would you allow and in your crew, you know, come out on a pair that was something that i was reading on yet. i think it's on the atlanta police foundation website. we can actually go to my computer and see it here. i'll highlight one of the goals that they've set here is to set a national standard for community engagement, neighbourhood sensitivity and devotion to the civil rights of all citizens by law enforcement. now listen to, to that gentleman who was in the ha plus film and it doesn't seem like, ah, they're living up to this particular one. come our can, can you touch on this? sure. i mean, they're not only, they're not living up to it. their job is to use that as propaganda, as they basically ride rip shaw over this community and put this facility where no one has access board. as a prior speaker said, this facility was jammed through via the city council and mary's office. no one in

actually of unity was acts or, or, or interviewed about wanting to facility there. over 70 percent of the respondents who caught in when city council pass this resolution were to give this lease said they did not want this facility built over 90 percent of the people who lived directly adjacent to the force have said that they do not want this facility built and said, the city of atlanta, the atlanta police foundation and the atlanta police themselves, have basically jammed us down the throats of this not only to citizens next to the force, but every wine in atlanta coming out of the 2020 uprisings. so this is l, when itself is a slap to civil rights, all meant to not only the black community, but in our estimation to the larger movement, which part of this facility is meant to stop for future organizing against police violence. it's almost overwhelming and the way they describe it and not just social issues, environmental issues as well. i'm going oh and i just want to note here we did,

asked the atlanta police foundation for a comment here. got no response from him. we also asked the city of atlanta and got no response also, but i'll let them speak for themselves like they did on their own website. there. this here, if we go to my computer again, this is from the city of atlanta. it actually has the south river park highlighted on here, and they're called, it's called part of the lungs of atlanta. jackie, you touch on that, the environmental importance of this area and what's at risk with the center. sure . this is one. this is the largest piece of green space or remaining inside i to 85. you know, that's the belt line around around atlanta. so it's, you know, $300.00 plus acres. so it's a massive piece of property and the so from that standpoint it, it, it, it is vital to climate change it to dealing with the effects of

climate change from the standpoint of air quality, from the standpoint of protecting interest, recruit that flows through it for you know, just from a quality of life standpoint. so yeah, atlanta is developing rapidly. you know, it's, it's very, very pro development town and is losing is tree canopy. and alarming rate or trees are being destroyed every year. that'll be planted. and even those that are plant are, you know, too much cal over, so it'll be a long time before they are really any, any viable use as relates to, to impact on the environment. ok, so yeah, this, this green space of green space in southeast atlanta is, is critical to the city itself, not to the residence of se,

the atlanta south carol county but, but to the city as a whole. hey, i want to bring in to so audience here. this is g girl and she says, who owns the land originally? and anna that's touched on in your film. what's play a clip here about the history of this one. a latest proposal to construct a police facility, sheri speaks the lands painful history. the site was a prison farm until 1995 prisoners. there were subjected to harsh punishments and slave conditions including poor sanitation, nutrition, and over crowding. some critics say, claims of unmarked grades have not yet been properly investigated. before that the land is thought to have been a plantation that enslaved at least 19 people. it was originally stolen from the muskogee who lived there until the u. s. government forcefully displaced them to oklahoma. today both activists and tribal members have reclaimed the indigenous name as will lonnie peoples park of fascinating history for this fuselage.

anna, i'm curious, is the muskogee nation. are they involved in what's going on there now? and anyway? yeah, so i mean, as you can see, this piece of land has a really, you know, painful past. and local advocates and community members have told me that there has been basically no effort, no genuine effort on the city's behalf to try to make amends or try to even study this past and the potential crimes that were committed on this land by the u. s. government, right, and by building this facility on this land, they're really trying to cover up this past not make any amends at all. and so the muskogee people who are based in oklahoma, they have been frequenting for, you know, trying to explore the idea of getting their land back and trying to reclaim their homeland again. but i think that the u. s. government,

the city has not reached out to the indigenous tribes. and so they have failed in that way. but also the people who are protesting and occupying the forest, they are trying to, you know, help the muskogee tribe, you know, get this land back. so that's why that they have named it lonnie people's part, which is the original muskogee creek name of the forest. yeah, we actually read as well and they were going to provide comment today for the show, but they're being hit with a massive winter storm right now. there's not got a lot of power their schools are closed so they weren't able to do it mom. sorry, i jumped on either. i know not at all. i just wanted to add really quick to and so the, the composition of the opposition ability in koch city is really wide. not only is it from with folks, let's go gay nation that used to be there, but it is from the black community. it is from the environmental, this is as you stated from people who are defend to forest folks,

it is from civil rights advocates. it is from people from the community. so there is a wide breast, the folks who have been supporting or demonstrating against the building of cops city since the, the beginning. and we should mention that since the very beginning, the police have used violence against po testers, the stop, ah, every, the stop folks in protesting and demanding that this doesn't get it built. huh. even at our earliest protests that we had in 2021, the police were arresting people. we had over 17 arrest. people were thrown down to the ground, pepper sprayed, people were given charges of disorderly conduct during that phase of the, of everything. and then now we've moved to this new phase where they are actually giving charges of domestic terrorism. and as we talked about earlier in january of 18, they actually killed a protester. and so that's the city, the state and the federal government had been engaged in a motel level task force, which is meant to destroy any movement to stop cop city. and instead to allow the

police to build this facility, which again, rena will be used against the black community in particular. and we know will be used against organizing, organizing in activism in the future. yeah, i'm gonna ask you about that with the murder of manual turan, the police said that it was in self defense, but they were all wearing body cameras. has that footage been released and if not, why not? there is no body cam footage according to the police of the shooting, which we find highly dis believable. right? the police this task force is made up of the atlanta police, the cap county police, the georgia bureau of investigation. some news reports even place the f. b, i there, in particular, the atlanta police are required to have body cameras on when they have encounters with the public. and so for them to tell us that they have no body camera image whatsoever is immediate. sus immediately suspect the fact that they would weave

a tale that says one shot was fired by the protester, and that it was a returned fire. our report, some folks who were around the force, was that there was a sudden burst of fire. it makes no sense that one individual in a tent to express no interest whatsoever of being in a duel with the police, which somehow shoot 1st when over $20.00 to $25.00 officers of various strikes were there and telling them to get out the test. it just seems ridiculous on his face, and as we know, the police have been known to lie in their reports as they did in george floyd as they just did in memphis. and as they continually dine, ah, to tell one story. and only later, why does the truth come out? did you say that something you're looking at an a p photo of atlanta swap members, and they're all wearing body camps. and you're right, just this week, we've watched him memphis how police murdered a man and then lied about it in their official reports at someone's gotta produced

this footage to say there's no footage is, is beyond belief. what were you gonna say anna? yeah, no, i was going to add that they claim that there is no body cam footage. and that is the exact reason why they're having growing calls to call for an independent investigation to be done into what actually happened here. but i think another thing that i mentioned that's really interesting is just the kind of dangerous precedent, the domestic charges, domestic terrorism, charges are going to create, you know, through about who is a protest or forest occupier that we follow in the film. we were notified by a story in the movement that she was one of those arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. and you can see in the film that he is peacefully protesting. also in the film you can see in our interviews with city politicians, you know, wait and admitting to us on camera for months now they've been actively pursuing these protest, sisters, for domestic terrorism even before investigating or arresting. so this,

that's sort of like a dangerous example for future protesters, you know, civil rights are saying by they are using the charged politicized marginalized groups to kind of clamp down on protesters and the for the future of protesters in the us. i don't agree with certain things, the government or the police is doing this is a dangerous example that they're setting and of course the centers protect it. they're supposed to be brought up to clips and we actually have both of those ready . so let's start with the force defender and is this the person that you were just talking about? force defenders have demolished equipment that they see attempted to destroy the forest before with water coming through the bush. insurance or corbin was to pluto once it's why not? everyone agrees, but the way defenders have been resisting. some of them have embraced militant

tactics, vandalizing police and private contractor vehicles. other critics say they do not represent the communities living in se, atlanta. ok risk, we don't see eye to eye on everything, but we are here trying to defend the forest and i yeah. so yeah. so you should have been arrested or was good. yeah, so the 2nd protester was in that clip has now been arrested. and i mean, both of you in atlanta, you guys can speak to this, but now there has just been less presence in the forest because of the increase police activity. you know, i think it's interesting in the beginning of the club, we saw that i said, you know, the state of the forest is up in the air, but it seems now that as police are clamping down on these protesters and arresting them aggressively does seem that they are going to move forward with this construction of the facility and they were very clear with me on the city of atlanta. i know it didn't respond to you guys,

but when i was doing the report they responded to me and said that they planned to finish building the facility by the end of 2023. and now that it's the beginning of the year, i think that is the reason why they have really ramped up this type of aggression towards protester. you know, when i was reporting on this, at the end of last year, i saw video footage from those occupying the forest. they had a video of the police, you know, rating the area, cutting down trees as these people were sitting inside trees, endangering their safety. so i'm sort of like not surprised to see the rise in aggression from the police against the protesters, and i want to go for a really quick i just said this is what i wanted to point out earlier. that the violence from the police has started at the very beginning of the protest, and they've only escalated their tactics. all the folks arrested it. and so far we've had a 19 arrest. now, if people are charged with domestic terrorism, all the folks who are arrested in the fours were arrested while sitting in trees or

a tree high and are near their campsite. none of these folks were engaged in any activity whatsoever that can be closely connected to any acts of so called terrorism, or even vandalism. at that particular stage, these folks or arrested why they were in treats these folks were at most committing the act of civil disobedience and nothing more. and so these are just scare tactics to criminalize the movement against us cop city and nothing more than that. and i think that is what we're at the stage, we're act where i agree with that. at this stage, what they want to do is to criminalize the movement get every went out the forest and so that they can build as fast as possible because they see that folks are beginning to watch and to see what's happening. call in awe, protest even more, both in atlanta, nationally and internationally. and the last i think is important. they try to keep talking about that the protesters are outside agitators. and these are the very

same public officials who, less than 2 weeks ago were honoring dr. king dr. king who did what, who went around from city to city, from state to state, protesting, unjust laws, committing acts of civil disobedience. and those very same authorities of that day called dr. king a what an outside agitator i a criminal, or even a terrorist. stephen, so the fact that they're trying to use the language of southern segregationist ms. in fact, for us, a ploy to try to switch the intention from what's happening in terms of that militarized police space that no one wants on to what's happening in terms of activists coming from out of town who we welcome to, to do protest and organize against comp, city yeah, inside know for international audience, atlanta where you guys are sitting at the home of dr. king jackie, want to bring you when, cuz i know that there's the water shed there and i know that that's protected by a clean water act laws. what, what's going on with that part of this we've been approaching,

you know, actually stopping this project for through the regulatory channel, which is at this point, i think the best, the best route now to actually to actually stop it as part of the conversation about you know alternative sites, but it is also what we've been promoting the creek that flows through the, the site it is on the states impaired water slip. give me just a few seconds of what the issue is, the previous impaired of it. it's impaired because of the impact of sediment on the fish and micro amber and macro vertebrae population in the creek. and so as a result, there it has. there is

a limit that's been placed on the amount of sediment that can enter the creek on by georgia apd. and it's also supported of course, by the clean water act. so we are at this point pre pursuing the regulatory angle that pretty much support. i mean, it does directly support our claim that the creek cannot assimilate any more sediment. plenty of sediment will be produced by the construction and therefore it will violate the clean water act. so that's what we have been pursuing for, for, you know, several months now and, and that's what we will continue to pursue in terms of when they issue the permit appeal. and yet through the channels that hopefully we in the end we'll be successful in terms of protecting the creek. ah,

and protecting the land around it supports the crate. i want to get 40 bills in here. we've got few minutes left, and i want to show this clip from the doc of city officials and how they responded to anna's questions. why did you vote to approve this facility? it's going to be a big recruiting tool. we have an a duty, i think. and an obligation to provide our employees with the best in class of everything. but you also have an obligation to listen to what the community is saying, right. do you feel like you've done that? yes, i feel that i've been there. i'm a city wide representative of move around the city constantly for multiple chances for the public to speak. i've never been to him. they were planning in a meeting or a neighborhood meeting. or i have been told we don't want this. come out just to make sure you heard the end of that was dustin hill is i think is his name . he said he's never been to

a planning committee or community meeting where he heard someone against this plan would. that's a joke of estate me again on the day that they voted, they had over 1000 calls. they came in over 70 percent of those calls were opposed to the building of this facility. again, pose again, taken in that neighborhood, directly adjacent to where this force is going. this, this cop city is going to be built at said that they are opposed to this facility. protest after protest, civil disobedience direct action. they know that people are posted as i come out. i'm an interrupted, only got 2 answers. i want you to respond to this on their website, the atlanta place foundation. it says that they're doing this in partnership with the national center for civil and human rights. do you know anything about that? i know that the national center for civil and human rights is funded by coca cola, which is why and why at one point was one of the corporate sponsors. one is

facility. i think it, i, i know we have to go through, but on this facility, they're going to have a black hawk helicopter landing pad. they're going to have a where it doesn't firing ranges. they're going to have a place to detonate explosives, they're going to have mach cities. this has nothing to do with policing. this has everything to do with the militarized thing to place it. our communities has nothing to do with trying to for public safety. this has everything to do with stopping uprisings and continuing the militarization of the police against black communities. and i live in america fort. yeah, i just wanna add that. you know, as you can share it from come out there is such a deep mistrust between bach neighborhood and the city because they were telling me that it's the name of public safety, right. they really believe that this center can improve public safety. and if they believe so, i think it's up to them to communicate transparently with the community, which they have clearly failed to do so. and you know, black communities,

a believe that this will lead to further militarization of the police. and again, the, i gotta, i gotta stop you there in slide to game, we're going to lose the show. the city of atlanta said that they are going to build this facility is going to happen before the end of this year. we will continue to watch it now desert and go to al jazeera plus to find an cook's excellent documentary on this ah ah a

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