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PHOTOS: Training center opponents protest at construction site
Protesters against Atlanta’s planned public safety training center have locked themselves to construction equipment at a Midtown construction site Monday morning. The site belongs to one of the contractors hired to build the training facility.
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Credit: John Spink
Two people locked themselves to construction equipment in Midtown to protest Atlanta’s planned public safety training center, causing a street to close amid the Monday morning commute, Jan. 29, 2024. The activists used reinforced bindings to lock their arms around the equipment at a Brasfield & Gorrie work site at 12th and Juniper streets. One person was locked to a construction elevator and the other to a boom. Both were released by 10:15 a.m. Juniper Street was closed to traffic for hours Monday morning before reopening around 11:30 a.m. SWAT team members were also at the scene for assistance in cutting the activists free. Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the contractors hired to build the training facility at the site of the old Atlanta Prison Farm in the south DeKalb County woods. Those opposed to the facility say its construction will damage the South River Forest and contribute to what they say is the militarization of the police department. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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