35 arrested after clashes at Atlanta police training center site

The location of a proposed Atlanta police coaching facility was attacked Sunday by folks throwing “giant rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at law enforcement officials,” police mentioned.

The massive image: Police mentioned that they had detained 35 folks after the most recent confrontation between police and protesters on the website of the Atlanta Police Basis’s proposed advanced, which activists have dubbed “Cop Metropolis.” Organizers have pushed again on the police account of the most recent clashes.

Particulars: The Atlanta Police Division mentioned in an announcement that “violent agitators used the duvet of a peaceable protest” on the website to launch the assault — an outline protesters strongly objected to.

• “They turned into black clothes and entered the development space” earlier than they allegedly launched their assault, police mentioned.

In the meantime, organizers and supporters mentioned clashes occurred throughout a weekend competition, per NBC Information.

What they’re saying: “Indiscriminate police violence tonight towards Cease Cop Metropolis festival-goers,” The Atlanta Solidarity Fund tweeted Sunday night time.

• “Police appear to be lashing out at anybody current on the music competition. Music just isn’t against the law, protest just isn’t against the law. The primary modification does not go away when a single particular person units a hearth.”

The Defend the Atlanta Forest collective issued a statement after the arrests stating: “It is necessary to notice that the 35 those that police arrested tonight weren’t ‘violent agitators,’ however peaceable live performance goers who had been nowhere close to the demonstration.”

Of notice: DeKalb County accepted the stalled land growth allow for the controversial police advanced in February — one month after the yearlong standoff between regulation enforcement and activists turned lethal, when a protester was fatally shot and a Georgia state trooper was injured on the website.

• Rights teams have referred to as for an unbiased investigation into the incident, which left environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán lifeless.

Go deeper: “Cop Metropolis” and the language of protests

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