More than 350 people signed up to speak during the meeting by early Monday afternoon, with hundreds more unable to sign up in time.
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of activists gathered to speak Monday at Atlanta’s City Hall ahead of a council vote over whether to approve tens of millions in public funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center that activists decry as “Cop City.”
The meeting is a culmination of nearly two years of activism against the project — a movement that has galvanized protesters from across the country, especially in the wake of the January fatal police shooting of Manuel Paez Terán, a today!
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