Roy Wood Jr. Explores Police Militarization & Atlanta's "Cop City"

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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"There's a lot of different ways to protest. Why is your way, live in a tree house 80 feet up and drop s**t in a paper bag?" Roy Wood Jr. visits the "forest defenders" who are actively protesting the construction of Atlanta's "Cop City." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:03.0	Tonight we take a look at Atlanta.
0:07.0	We're shit's getting crazy.
0:09.0	I'm talking Waffle House crazy.
0:11.0	Atlanta's busy downtown descended into chaos over the weekend.
0:15.0	Hundreds of protesters marched in the streets in the wake of the death of a 26 year old environmental activist.
0:22.0	The activist was killed on Wednesday as officers cleared protesters from the site of a planned police training center.
0:30.0	Police training center.
0:32.0	But these guys are trained, right? This isn't an arm militia of interns.
0:35.0	Back before things got this bad, I went to Atlanta and met with local activist Jasmine Burnett.
0:41.0	Atlanta Police Foundation is building a massive urban warfare training facility with bombs, testings, tear gas explosions, shooting range.
0:49.0	Didn't people march to defund the police? It looked like a refunded police.
0:53.0	They did.
0:54.0	Activists have dubbed this development cop city.
0:56.0	An 85 acre 90 million dollar complex including a shooting range, burn buildings, and a mock city that includes apartments of school, even a bar.
1:04.0	So this is basically six flanks for the police.
1:07.0	Yes, it's a playground.
1:09.0	You can't call it a playground.
1:10.0	Mm-hmm.
1:11.0	Or would you write just literally a playground.
1:12.0	But I had a dream about how they could make this project more appealing to activists.
1:16.0	We name it after my Luther King.
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