In the second video, Brandon Hill denies trying to disarm the officer, but then goes on to say, but "if I did, it was the fault of the police for being armed."
OTH, I remember when Leticia James prosecuted folks for protesting the building of facilities to militarize community policing, with the same damn law she used to prosecute Trump. It is probably an indication that deep state tom foolery is being used to suppress dissent in an unconstitutional manner.
Folks, regardless of their political leaning, should probably be aware of the funded increase in state power.
I really wonder if there are any federal funds going into this effort?
" . . . Atlanta’s cop city isn’t the first of its kind. While in other cities, similar massive training facilities service different types of first responders, like firefighters and EMS, they still generally contain several areas for combat readiness. These campuses sometimes contain entire mock villages where police can practice different scenarios that involve shooting and even explosives (though it was reported that the explosives training center for Atlanta’s cop city was scrapped by spring 2023). Police gun ranges can be loud, disruptive, unhealthy, and generally nerve-wracking to live around, as the residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio—the majority-Black town where the Cincinnati police conduct firearms training—can attest.
As of June 2024, the public cost of construction for Atlanta’s cop city has doubled, with the city’s contribution going from a pledged $30 million to $67 million after a 2023 city council vote. Like the armories that came before it, the project has enraged local residents for its expense and for what that expense implies about the priorities of Atlanta officials, not to mention the environmental destruction required to build it. . . "
The push by Atlanta and other cities to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of the state’s power.
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On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground, organizers from the Stop Cop City Bay Area Coalition marched to the Overaa Construction headquarters in protest. Citing concerns over rising police militarization and repression in the predominantly Black...
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I remember how the state violated the Constitutional rights of everyday folks in Boston after that marathon bombing, just to look for the suspects as the excuse.
It was quite frankly chilling.