Cop City

Black Alliance for Peace Atlanta City-Wide Alliance
BAP Atlanta Says Free Them All!
20 Sep 2023
The state of Georgia has doubled down on criminalizing protest against the Cop City militarized policing project. Domestic terrorism charges and a statute meant for organized crime prosecution are…
Jacqueline Luqman
A Justice System That Is Not Fair and Just For Everyone Is Not Fair and Just For Anyone
13 Sep 2023
A Black Proud Boy gets the Black people treatment in court, Stop Cop City activists are punished for supporting the Atlanta Black community, and prosecutors indict on specious and politically…
Eva Dickerson
How the Black Misleadership Class Provides Cover to Cop City
13 Sep 2023
The Cop City project is just the latest iteration of Black politicians covering up for the white power structure in Atlanta. The community doesn't want Cop City, but so-called leadership don't really…
Atlanta Community Press Collective
Georgia Attorney General Brings RICO Indictments Against 61 Activists
06 Sep 2023
The state of Georgia is using the RICO organized crime statute to crush Stop Cop City protests.
Dyana Bagby
11th Circuit Court Issues Stay in Favor of Atlanta in "Cop City" Referendum Case
06 Sep 2023
The petition process to put Cop City on the ballot in Atlanta continues, despite Atlanta public officials' insistence on building a so-called public safety training center that their constituents don…
Dyana Bagby
Atlanta’s Appeal of ‘Stop Cop City’ Referendum Denied as Petition Nears 80,000 Signatures
16 Aug 2023
The grassroots movement to put a Cop City referendum on the ballot came closer to becoming a reality when a federal judge denied the city of Atlanta's appeal to stop the petition drive.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
State Repression Targets the Stop Cop City Movement
07 Jun 2023
Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition…
Micah Herskind
This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City
10 May 2023
Cop City is the culmination of years of "Atlanta Way" neo-liberalism intended to advantage corporate interests and affluent white people. Black people have been pushed out and those that remain live…
Black Alliance for Peace Atlanta City-Wide Alliance
The State Repression of U.S. Settler Colonialism in The South: BAP ATLANTA STATEMENT
25 Jan 2023
The plan for an Atlanta police training facility known as "Cop City" is the latest phase of state repression in that region.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cop City Kills Before It Opens
25 Jan 2023
What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn't want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta's awful Cop City…