Stop Cop City
COP CITIES DO NOT BELONG IN AMERICA
- January 29, 2023
- Originally Published on Substack
The United States has seen a pattern of deeply disturbing tragedies over the last month.
On January 18th, a young man named Manuel Teran, called Tortuguita, was killed in Atlanta during a police raid on a group of environmental activists. The group was protesting the city’s razing of the 300 acre South River Forest in order to build a $90 million “Cop City.” A police officer was shot and wounded in the confrontation and authorities say Tortuguita shot first. They have provided no evidence that this is true, however, and others present at the time have questioned their version of events. No bodycam footage is available.
STOP COP CITY TWEETS
Stop Cop City activists are among the bravest of our generation. They are risking more than we can imagine in an effort to stop an extremely dangerous project of police militarization in America.@ReverendWarnock is silent. @ossoff is silent. Other Democratic leaders are silent.…
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) August 28, 2023
Let's be very clear. Cop City is a template for a police state. We are way past the "it could never happen here" stage, and kudos to the brave Stop Cop City activists who are doing this for all of us.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) September 12, 2023
Do not kid yourself; a Cop City could absolutely come to a town near you.…
Cop City is, to put it bluntly, the infrastructure for a police state.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) March 8, 2023
Plus it is a template they are planning to recreate in other cities as well.
Those who were protesting it are not criminals, they are heroes.
The fact that their behavior is being criminalized, labeled… https://t.co/2JRkiEoGH9
Let's be very clear, a facility like "Cop City" is infrastructure for a police state. pic.twitter.com/5LHo2WEP1o
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) January 28, 2023
Great to see the people of Atlanta - and others - standing up in resistance to Cop City. https://t.co/wD79ZPh6kO
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) June 5, 2023
Stop Cop City activists are among the bravest of our generation. They are risking more than we can imagine in an effort to stop an extremely dangerous project of police militarization in America.@ReverendWarnock is silent. @ossoff is silent. Other Democratic leaders are silent.…
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) August 28, 2023
I agree.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) August 18, 2023
No one should think Cop City is only about Atlanta. It’s a template that would be used elsewhere, and the people taking a stand against it in Atlanta are giving a gift to all of us. https://t.co/yxtEN2c32G
Cop City is one of the worst ideas to come out of the police industrial complex for a long time. It’s the template for a police state, fostering separation between police and the communities they’re here to serve. It’s the last thing we need now. https://t.co/WBpzdpGF5I
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) May 28, 2023
The very idea of a "cop city" in the US is chilling.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) January 22, 2023
Why this $90M facility when we already have so much evidence of police overreach?
Why give more power to a system that clearly needs reform?
And we need an investigation into what happened to Teran. https://t.co/2eTd6IKUfy
Cop City is the template for a police state, pure and simple. Separating police from the rest of our domestic population create an us – versus-them dynamic at the worst possible moment. And being set off by itself, it would be almost impossible to truly monitor what goes on… https://t.co/zTwEAVub4d
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) August 9, 2023
The very notion of a “cop city” in America is repellent.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) January 23, 2023
It is nothing short of infrastructure for a police state.
Say No a thousand times and then 1,000 times more.#StopCopCity https://t.co/G6RBL2rYPi
Stop Cop City activists are among the bravest of our generation. They are risking more than we can imagine in an effort to stop an extremely dangerous project of police militarization in America.@ReverendWarnock is silent. @ossoff is silent. Other Democratic leaders are silent.…
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) August 28, 2023
Let's be very clear. Cop City is a template for a police state. We are way past the "it could never happen here" stage, and kudos to the brave Stop Cop City activists who are doing this for all of us.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) September 12, 2023
Do not kid yourself; a Cop City could absolutely come to a town near you.…