Atlanta Referendum to Block 'Cop City' Clears Key Bureaucratic Hurdle

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'The mayor says the people of Atlanta want Cop City, that this is a thing the people want, and if that's true, no one should be afraid of a vote,' says Paul Glaze of CopCityVote after the approval of a referendum petition on the project's land lease.

that Terán was shot 57 times and that there was no gunpowder residue on the victim's hands, debunking the government's claim Terán fired first.as "unprecedented" by human rights defenders.Marlon Scott Kautz, Savannah Patterson, and Adele Maclean of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund —a legal aid group and bail fund supporting the Cop City protesters—in a dramatic militarized raid on June 1.

Atlanta City Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari responded by calling the organizers—who deny the allegations against them—"some of the best of our Atlanta mutual aid network" and condemning their arrests as "nothing more than an intimidation tactic by the state."

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