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  1. The Deadly Exchange: Israeli forces have been training American police for decades dlvr.it/TTS0gs #civilrights #CopCity #georgia

  2. The Deadly Exchange: Israeli forces have been training American police for decades dlvr.it/TTS0gs #civilrights #CopCity #georgia

  3. This is political violence 😡

    "... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
    #CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance truthout.org/articles/in-atlan

  4. This is political violence 😡

    "... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
    #CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance truthout.org/articles/in-atlan

  5. This is political violence 😡

    "... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
    #CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance truthout.org/articles/in-atlan

  6. This is political violence 😡

    "... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
    #CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance truthout.org/articles/in-atlan

  7. This is political violence 😡

    "... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
    #CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance truthout.org/articles/in-atlan

  8. "When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.

    For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.

    Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.

    The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”

    The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.

    Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."

    capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-c

    #AI #AIPolicing #USA #CopCity #Atlanta #Surveillance

  9. "When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.

    For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.

    Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.

    The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”

    The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.

    Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."

    capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-c

    #AI #AIPolicing #USA #CopCity #Atlanta #Surveillance

  10. #Atlanta ’s ‘#CopCity’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for #AI Policing

    https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/

    In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.

  11. #Atlanta ’s ‘#CopCity’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for #AI Policing

    https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/

    In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.

  12. The reactionary establishment of Minneapolis is pushing for their own #CopCity (with a euphemism for the name of course; i won't use it but it is more of a #CopSpa to be fair).

  13. The reactionary establishment of Minneapolis is pushing for their own #CopCity (with a euphemism for the name of course; i won't use it but it is more of a #CopSpa to be fair).

  14. #Protonmail #CopCity

    Reposting this about the Protonmail collaboration to bring this commentary to the front and ensure it is seen:

    Responding to
    mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/11

    This of course means Protonmail can no longer be trusted, so for any email that needs to be secure use anonymous random numbered accounts and PGP/GPG used locally to encrypt and decrypt messages That's how SHAC (Stop Huntingdon's Animal Cruelty) used to do it and neither the US nor the UK was ever able to defeat their encrypted emails to my knowledge

    Weak spot in this case was the account was a paid account, thus identifiable by payment info. This attack might have failed against a free account.

    No paid online account should ever be considered secure unless MAYBE managed only w prepaid cards bought with cash from a variety of locations and not requiring personal info to activate.

    At the Stop Cop City level the cards should be purchased by someone who does nothing else and ideallly pass through a "cutout," which is a courier again doing nothing else

    Also cash (accepted by Proton it seems) should not come from an ATM due to risk of serial numbers being recorded or recoverable. I read somewhere that some ATMs are dispensing sequentially serial numbered bills.

  15. #Protonmail #CopCity

    Reposting this about the Protonmail collaboration to bring this commentary to the front and ensure it is seen:

    Responding to
    mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/11

    This of course means Protonmail can no longer be trusted, so for any email that needs to be secure use anonymous random numbered accounts and PGP/GPG used locally to encrypt and decrypt messages That's how SHAC (Stop Huntingdon's Animal Cruelty) used to do it and neither the US nor the UK was ever able to defeat their encrypted emails to my knowledge

    Weak spot in this case was the account was a paid account, thus identifiable by payment info. This attack might have failed against a free account.

    No paid online account should ever be considered secure unless MAYBE managed only w prepaid cards bought with cash from a variety of locations and not requiring personal info to activate.

    At the Stop Cop City level the cards should be purchased by someone who does nothing else and ideallly pass through a "cutout," which is a courier again doing nothing else

    Also cash (accepted by Proton it seems) should not come from an ATM due to risk of serial numbers being recorded or recoverable. I read somewhere that some ATMs are dispensing sequentially serial numbered bills.

  16. #Proton is in the news again - and it's for the same reason. At what point do we just have to say that a private mail server running on a VPS is the only path forward?

    Or, and hear me out on this one: make a new #email protocol that's compatible with IMAP/POP3/SMTP that fixes some of their problems and takes power over data away from hosts and solely into the hand of the user.

    Proton Mail Helped #FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop #CopCity’ Protester
    404media.co/proton-mail-helped

  17. #Proton is in the news again - and it's for the same reason. At what point do we just have to say that a private mail server running on a VPS is the only path forward?

    Or, and hear me out on this one: make a new #email protocol that's compatible with IMAP/POP3/SMTP that fixes some of their problems and takes power over data away from hosts and solely into the hand of the user.

    Proton Mail Helped #FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop #CopCity’ Protester
    404media.co/proton-mail-helped

  18. Federal appeals court rules against '#CopCity' referendum

    https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/01/09/appeals-court-rules-against-cop-city-referendum/

    A federal appeals court ruled no First Amendment violation occurred since Georgia case law prohibits petitions overturning city ordinances.

  19. Federal appeals court rules against '#CopCity' referendum

    https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/01/09/appeals-court-rules-against-cop-city-referendum/

    A federal appeals court ruled no First Amendment violation occurred since Georgia case law prohibits petitions overturning city ordinances.

  20. Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/

  21. Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/

  22. Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/

  23. Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/

  24. Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement

    However, the state could re-file RICO charges with permission from the governor, and may appeal the judge’s ruling.

    murica.website/2026/01/rackete

  25. Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement

    However, the state could re-file RICO charges with permission from the governor, and may appeal the judge’s ruling.

    murica.website/2026/01/rackete

  26. Is Organized Labor at Risk Under Trump’s War on Anti-Capitalist “Terrorism”?

    Under Trump’s National Security Directive, unions may be threatened if worker actions are deemed a threat to the US.

    murica.website/2025/10/is-orga

  27. #Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against ‘#CopCity’ protesters

    By R.J. RICO
    Updated 3:36 PM EDT, September 9, 2025

    ATLANTA (AP) — "A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call '#CopCity.'

    "Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said he does not believe Republican Attorney General Chris Carr had the authority to secure the 2023 indictments under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO. Experts believe it was the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history.

    "The defendants faced a wide variety of allegations — everything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, to supplying food to protesters who were camped in the woods and passing out fliers against a state trooper who had fatally shot a protester. Each defendant faced up to 20 years in prison on the RICO charges.

    [...]

    "Emerging in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests, the '#StopCopCity' movement gained nationwide recognition as it united anarchists, environmental activists and anti-police protesters against the sprawling training center, which was being built in a wooded area that was ultimately razed in DeKalb County.

    "Activists argued that uprooting acres of trees for the facility would exacerbate environmental damage in a flood-prone, majority-Black area while serving as an expensive staging ground for militarized officers to be trained in quelling social movements.

    "The training center, a priority of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, opened earlier this year, despite years of protests and millions in cost overruns, some of it due to the damage protesters caused, and police officials’ needs to bolster 24/7 security around the facility."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop

    #StopCopCity #JusticeForTort #SaveTheForest #ACAB #StopCopyCitiesEverywhere

  28. #Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against ‘#CopCity’ protesters

    By R.J. RICO
    Updated 3:36 PM EDT, September 9, 2025

    ATLANTA (AP) — "A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call '#CopCity.'

    "Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said he does not believe Republican Attorney General Chris Carr had the authority to secure the 2023 indictments under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO. Experts believe it was the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history.

    "The defendants faced a wide variety of allegations — everything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, to supplying food to protesters who were camped in the woods and passing out fliers against a state trooper who had fatally shot a protester. Each defendant faced up to 20 years in prison on the RICO charges.

    [...]

    "Emerging in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests, the '#StopCopCity' movement gained nationwide recognition as it united anarchists, environmental activists and anti-police protesters against the sprawling training center, which was being built in a wooded area that was ultimately razed in DeKalb County.

    "Activists argued that uprooting acres of trees for the facility would exacerbate environmental damage in a flood-prone, majority-Black area while serving as an expensive staging ground for militarized officers to be trained in quelling social movements.

    "The training center, a priority of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, opened earlier this year, despite years of protests and millions in cost overruns, some of it due to the damage protesters caused, and police officials’ needs to bolster 24/7 security around the facility."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop

    #StopCopCity #JusticeForTort #SaveTheForest #ACAB #StopCopyCitiesEverywhere

  29. Fulton County Judge Says He Will Drop Racketeering Charges in 61 Cop City Cases

    The prosecutions were part of a yearslong effort to crush opposition to the construction of a police training center.

    murica.website/2025/09/fulton-

  30. It's a start. Would love to see a list of all the dark money that has been poured into that project and who got compensated on the government side. The Atlanta Ormewood Park neighborhood group moderators back on Facebook are freaking out and burying mentions of it and similar news.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

    #atlanta #copcity #ormewoodpark #resist #police

  31. Sounds like the cops at LA's #CopCity blew themselves up!

    Training facility blast kills 3 LA deputies in one of sheriff’s department’s worst losses of life

    apnews.com/article/facility-sh

    #NoCopCities #ACAB

  32. Sounds like the cops at LA's #CopCity blew themselves up!

    Training facility blast kills 3 LA deputies in one of sheriff’s department’s worst losses of life

    apnews.com/article/facility-sh

    #NoCopCities #ACAB

  33. Nearly Two Years After Being Indicted on #Racketeering Charges in #Georgia, the First of 61 #StopCopCity Defendants is Set to Start Trial Today

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2025 via #WeelauneeTheFree

    Repeated Evidentiary Violations, Dismissals of Charges, and More Than 200 Unresolved Motions Have Plagued the State’s Efforts to #Criminalize a Political Movement

    ATLANTA, GA – "Nearly two years after being indicted on State racketeering charges in Georgia, the first of 61 Stop #CopCity defendants charged with #RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) will go to trial today, Monday, July 7 at 9 am in Fulton County Superior Court. A press conference will also be held today after the trial adjourns.

    "#AylaKing filed for a speedy trial in October 2023, but their case has been held up on appeal while higher courts considered whether Georgia’s speedy trial statute had been violated and whether King’s rights had been denied. Multiple pretrial motions and the possibility of additional motions being filed this morning could delay the start of the trial, but according to Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer, jury selection will begin today.

    What: First of 61 Stop Cop City RICO trials for Ayla King and press conference
    When: Monday, July 7, 2025: Trial at 9am; Press conference at 4pm or when trial adjourns
    Where: Fulton County Superior Court, 185 Central Ave SW, Courtroom 4D

    " 'Despite facing two decades in prison—nearly as long as they’ve been alive—Ayla King has bravely pushed for a speedy trial, and will now, after two years, finally see their day in court,' said local community member Evan Grace. Supporters of King argue that the charges are politically motivated. 'We know these charges are meant to bully us into silence, but the movement to Stop Cop City has always taken the courageous path, the one in righteous opposition to the #racist, #classist, violent system of #police and #prisons,' continued Grace. 'King, all the Stop Cop City defendants, and everyone coming out to show support during this trial will prove that the scare tactics they throw at us will never stop us from fighting back.' "

    weelauneethefree.org/nearly-tw

    #CopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #WeelauneeForest #ACAB #RememberTort #JusticeForTort #JusticeForTortugita #AtlantaGeorgia #SystemicRacism #SaveTheForests #NoCopCities