173. A Police Killing at the Atlanta Forest Protest
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Today we speak to Sean who's part of the Atlanta Forest defence movement. He talks to us about the recent police killing in the midst of the protest.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:09.0 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. In this episode we're speaking to a lad named |
| 0:16.2 | Sean he's part of the movement to defend the Atlanta Forest. If you don't know |
| 0:21.3 | what that is there's been a large scale protest and significant |
| 0:25.7 | violence amidst the police and people that don't want 90 acres of a forest in Atlanta bulldoze so that a police |
| 0:34.8 | training facility can be built in this place. This culminated recently a week |
| 0:39.8 | ago when a man named Tort one of the forest defenders was shot and killed by the police. |
| 0:46.0 | The media is mostly given the police a platform to say what they think so we wanted to hear from the other side. |
| 0:52.0 | Support us at patreon.com slash So we wanted to hear from the other side. |
| 0:52.6 | Support us at patreon.com slash popular front. |
| 0:59.3 | So unfortunately very recently a young man was shot, killed by police in Atlanta whilst trying to stop the |
| 1:10.2 | essential demolition of the forest there. We'll get on to that but before we do |
| 1:15.7 | can you please explain to us what is this whole movement around the the Atlanta forest? |
| 1:21.2 | Why are there people there trying to stop this going ahead? |
| 1:24.4 | There's like dozens of reasons why people are trying to defend this forest and all of them, |
| 1:31.1 | not all of them overlap but I'll try and just briefly explain the situation, which is after the George Floyd uprising, just like a few months after the last round of tear gas was done being shot by the Atlanta police. |
| 1:45.6 | They announced that they were going to build a massive new police training facility and that |
| 1:50.8 | that massive new police training facility was going to be located in hundreds of acres of woods, |
| 1:56.6 | which was the largest intact urban tree canopy in the city. |
| 2:01.9 | And it was going to be the largest police training facility in the US. |
| 2:07.0 | And immediately after this announcement, there's a lot of activation from people who'd been a part of the George Floyd uprising and others to get prepared to kind of say |
| 2:18.4 | How can we stop this thing and how can we stop this thing at any cost? |
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