Atlanta City Council Vote; 'Stop Cop City'; Atlanta Solidarity Fund; “Tortuguita”

June 6, 2023

Atlanta City Council Approves Project Decried As ‘Cop City,’ Rejecting Activists’ Fierce Opposition

R.J. Rico, Associated Press PBS News Hour

For about 14 hours, residents again and again took to the podium to slam the project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority-Black area.

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