Under liberal fascist former mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and current mayor Andre Dickens, Atlanta began plans to build Cop City. This $90 million training center would include a shooting range and model neighborhood to stage raids on 85 acres of forest adjacent to historically Black communities (CNN, 9/24/22?). Workers are fighting back with street protests and erecting their own camps in the threatened forest.

On January 18, Tortuguita, a widely loved environmental organizer, in a raid on the encampments was killed (PBS, 1/29). The police killing prompted several nights of protests in downtown Atlanta and worldwide as workers questioned the police account of the murder. More than a dozen protestors have been charged with domestic terrorism. This chilling new trend is popular with liberal fascist politicians to squash worker fightback.