Tensions boiled over inside Atlanta’s City Hall overnight as the city council voted to transfer $31 million for the building of a police training camp. The vote followed hours of public comment in which hundreds spoke, most of them opposing the plan.
The divisive nature of the plan was on full display on Monday and into Tuesday, as an emotional public-comment period lasted more than 14 hours.
“Whether it’s the deal that’s before us today or some other iteration, eventually the city of Atlanta will have to acquire equipment, build facilities for our departments. And that is a fact,” council member Michael Julian Bond said as protesters shouted.that building the training camp would allow the city to save $200,000 annually or $6 million over 30 years — instead of using those funds to lease other “suboptimal” facilities for public safety training.
to include a slew of property crimes intended to change government policy through “intimidation or coercion.”who protested the training facility by holing up in the forest-filled site and erecting a community of treehouse encampments. That demonstration of dissent was met with force when state agencies moved in to get clear the area in January. What the police described as a shootout left Paez Teran dead, and widespread protests erupted in its wake.
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