35 detained after violence at Atlanta 'Cop City' police training site

Police in Georgia this morning say they were attacked in a violent protest at the construction site of the New Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. They say protesters who had just left a nearby music festival threw explosives and Molotov cocktails at police officers and set equipment on fire. This was a very violent attack that occurred this evening, very violent attack. This wasn't about a public safety training center, this was about anarchy, and this was about the attempt to destabilize. Authorities say there were more than 100 people and that this was a coordinated attack on officers and equipment. During that attack on the officers, pieces of equipment and other items that were at the location for the construction of the Public Safety Training Center were damaged. Police arrested more than two dozen.

Atlanta's police chief says what happened was not a legitimate protest and that many of those arrested were not from Georgia. When you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw Molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm them. And the charges are going to show that tonight when we make the broker charges. This is the latest in a series of clashes with police. In January, one of the demonstrators was shot to death by a state trooper at this site. But one thing we need to underline, even though the environmentalists call this cop city, it was approved by Republicans, Democrats at the city and state level who are white, black and brown.

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