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Investment fund links to Atlanta police and ‘Cop City’ project revealed
Paul Brown, the CEO of Inspire Brands, whose portfolio includes fast-food franchises #Dunkin’, #Baskin #Robbins and #Arby’s, sits on the board of trustees of the #Atlanta #Police #Foundation (#APF), which is raising $60m from corporate funders to build #CopCity in the Atlanta forest previously earmarked for a public park.
Police foundations are non-profits which raise private money from individual and corporate donors that is funnelled to police departments with little oversight or accountability.
The APF has previously helped Atlanta police fund recruitment drives, surveillance cameras and Swat team equipment.
The police crackdown on community protests against Cop City have led to dozens of charges of #domestic #terrorism and the #police #killing of the environmental #activist Manuel Paez Terán, known as “#Tortuguita”.
Police said Paez Terán shot at them first, but have not produced any body-cam or other video footage of the shooting.
The APF has helped Atlanta become the #most #surveilled city in the US in large part thanks to a program called #Operation #Shield.
The Silicon Valley firm Silver Lake Management, one of the world’s largest tech-focused private equity firms, has invested more than $1bn in #Motorola #Solutions, which designed and implemented the surveillance system for Operation Shield, according to a new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP).