Atlanta police target opponents to new police training centre

For months after February 2024, police in Atlanta, Georgia began conducting round-the-clock surveillance for months on people and homes linked to opposition to a 171-acre police training center under construction known as "cop city". Concentrated in 12 homes in four neighbourhoods, the surveillance has included following people in cars and disrupting lives by blasting sirens outside bedroom windows and shining headlights into houses at night. This type of physical surveillance has been known since the 1960s and is typically used to intimidate and coerce protest into silence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/atlanta-police-cop-city-surveillance

Publication: The Guardian

Writer: Timothy Pratt

Publication date: 2024-05-29