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It Could Happen Here

Requiem for Stop Cop City

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics, News

4.36.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Garrison expounds on six phases of the Stop Cop City movement, its decline in momentum, and how Atlanta bridges the gap between the 2020 protests and new tactics of state repression being used nationwide in the current expansion of police power.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3dqH_lfh6g

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZDfvAZrrU 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.9

Cool Zone Media.

0:11.7

Get ready for anarchy in Atlanta.

0:18.5

It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat in

0:23.0

our country.

0:24.0

State-of-the-art, organized, and well-funded activists and criminals.

0:30.2

On April 29, 2025, after almost exactly four years of protests, sabotage, encampments, and organizing against the construction of a state-of-the-art police training facility, dubbed Cops City, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center officially opened atop of the South River Forest in DeKalb County, Georgia.

0:52.6

One, two, three, cut. The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center is open, a handshake between Governor Brian Kemp and a relieved Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.

1:04.0

Getting here has not been an easy journey.

1:08.0

The opening of the $118 million complex for police, fire, and E911 personnel,

1:14.1

which includes academic, leadership, and simulation centers came after not months, but years of

1:19.9

public pushback. Stop, cop city!

1:22.6

Try it out!

1:24.9

This is It Could Happen here, I'm Garrison Davis.

1:29.1

I've been covering the combined Defend the Atlanta Forest Stop Cop City movement on this show since 2021.

1:36.8

I first traveled to Atlanta to report on the ground from inside of the protest encampments in spring of 2022,

1:44.0

and I moved to Atlanta to continue

1:46.2

covering the story more in depth in 2023. My coverage has tracked the trajectory of the movement,

1:52.7

as well as my ability as a reporter. But this will be my last piece on the Stop Cop City movement.

2:00.7

Every other reporter mini-series I've done on Stop Cop City was written while the movement

2:05.4

was still ongoing, and the final outcome had yet to be fully determined.

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