ATLANTA — Opponents of a plan to build a police training center on an 85-acre wooded property in DeKalb County gathered Saturday to kick off a week of protests and festivities aimed at stopping the project from moving forward.
“What did we come here to do?” Matthew Johnson, an event organizer, yelled to the crowd that gathered around him in a giant circle as the event began.
“Stop cop city,” the protesters chanted in response, referring to the name that activists have given to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site.
