Timothy Pratt
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UPDATE: Columbia Public Safety backs off what would have been first time authorities had ever attempted to shut down student radio station WKCR. "That was scary," says host, her voice trembling. Nervous laughter heard in background; host says "we're gonna cut to music now!"
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NOW: biggest crowd of protestors, mostly students and faculty, marching on Atlanta’s Emory Univ. campus:
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IN Wisconsin, the word most often searched for under "how to spell" in Google is...Wisconsin!!!! Hahahaha...
America's most misspelled words - it's
#spellingbee
week and we mapped top "how to spell" searches by state
#dataviz
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Police, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Gov. Brian Kemp have all said wd support peaceful protest ag’t “cop city”— but today APD tells abt 15 peaceful protestors handing out flyers in downtown Atl that they’re “obstructing pedestrian traffic” and must disperse.
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City of Atl says will accept 118k sign’s re. referendum on Cop City, but not begin verification process due to ongoing appeal in court. Activists here respond:
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I spoke to
#tortuguita
's family for this story:
‘Assassinated in cold blood’: the man killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’
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Emails show Atlanta police use Signal to talk abt "Cop City."
Transparency experts say this shd be ag't the law, as the encrypted app makes it easy to delete msgs., violating open records laws.
@will_potter
@micahinATL
@kamaufranklin
@dnbrgr
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Atlanta councilman Michael Julian Bond - son of Julian Bond - tries to tell public why city cant provide social svs - but has to take care of police training. Public turns back, shouts “viva Tortuguita!” - name of activist killed by police protesting agt Cop City.
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Councilwoman Liliana Bakhtiari becomes 2d person to sign petition to get
#StopCopCity
on the ballot in November!
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HAPPENING now: Angela Davis addressing UN panel on racial justice and equality in law enforcement in Atlanta
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Atlanta’s Black community raises voice against ‘Cop City’ police base
@defendATLforest
@atlanta_press
@kamaufranklin
@micahinATL
@MariahforAthens
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Georgia prosecutors accused of waging ‘judicial pogrom’ against ‘Cop City’ activists
@micahinATL
@SDonziger
@atlanta_press
@defendATLforest
@ATLSolFund
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@JeffSchuhrke
And reflecting on this should lead to the role fellow journos had in this, where countless opportunities were missed to report on exactly what a difference these programs made to people living in their areas of coverage.
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Y'ALL: Columbia student station WKCR is being told by Public Safety they must evacuate the station! On-air host saying this is UNPRECEDENTED in history of station.
@thrasherxy
@jelani9
@dnbrgr
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Muscogee indigenous leader Mekko Chebon spks to Atlanta city council agt “Cop City,” planned police/fire training ctr. He was at forest 2 yrs ago nr where ctr. is planned, took place in 1st “stomp dance” on land in 100’s of yrs.
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@JoshforGeorgia
@ChrisCarr_Ga
BUT what's worse, I already reported this ... in JAN.! The state has already been called on this lie, and doesn't care!
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THE SAME DAY police arrested bail/legal fund organizers in unprecedented raid, famed lawyer Stanley Cohen filed constitutional challenge to Ga's "domestic terrorism" law used ag't protestors:
@equalityAlec
@SDonziger
@thrasherxy
@micahinATL
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116k signatures fm Atlanta voters being turned into clerk at City Hall to get qu. of whether Cop City shd be built on ballot
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Atl City Councilman Bond told me that this week’s record-breaking 7-plus hrs of public comment incl’d “errors,” and he still feels obligated to build training center. The rest of council didnt even reply!!
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HERE’S the search warrant used in Atl PD’s recent raid on a private residence, seeking evid. of “domestic terrorism” and the subject of my recent story in the Guardian:
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Atlanta police are shining lights and blasting sirens outside houses at night, following ppl for hours— in connection to Cop City:
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NO ONE I spoke w/ had knowledge of RICO ever being used ag't such a large gp of activists or protestors in US history – Ga. continues to set precedent in its persecution of mv't ag't Cop City
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Exclusive: groups call for US inquiry into police killing of ‘Cop City’ protester
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Scene right now in ft of Atl Police Fdn HQ, the org behind “Cop City”
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City off’ls say Atlanta City Hall has “reached capacity” as 615 members of pub. have come to oppose “Cop City,” a police/ fire training ctr. More wait in street outside. Shouts: “viva Tortuguita,” the activist killed Jan. 18
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Night falls on Atlanta City Hall as members of public wait their turn to give public comment agt “Cop City”- and make music, art and food in meantime. An est’d 1,000 ppl came thru today, a record
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About 8 comments in, 100’s to go, all agt $ for Cop City — and city council still left dozens of empty seats in chamber despite 100’s waiting outside
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Protestors have occupied theology school building at Atlanta’s Emory U. while hundreds show support outside:
@thrasherxy
@dnbrgr
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Atlanta Police Fd'n sued after ignoring Open Records requests. Likely 1st lawsuit of its kind.
@avitale
, author of The End of Policing, told me: “If you have nothing to hide, then why are you hiding?”
@micahinATL
@atlanta_press
@neonflag
@will_potter
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Writer-soon-to-be-law-student Micah Herskind reminds Atl City Council how many local org’s, gps oppose Cop City…and gets applause, bringing Pres. Shipman to try and clear chambers. Police enter, but the impasse is soon overcome w/o incident.
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“How can we expect people to have any faith in the democratic process when they keep moving the goalposts?”
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EXCLUSIVE: What did Dem. Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens' staffer say in closed-door mtng to squash an ordinance that would have moved forward an effort to let voters decide on police training ctr. known as Cop City?
@micahinATL
@defendATLforest
@dnbrgr
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BREAKING: Dekalb Co. autopsy of Tortuguita still not done, 2 months after they were killed in forest:
@defendATLforest
@atlanta_press
@kamaufranklin
@UR_Ninja
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My latest: ACLU, NAACP, others call on DHS to stop calling Cop City protestors 'terrorists,' 'extremists' – and to stop baseless monitoring of social media:
@defendATLforest
@will_potter
@SDonziger
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Georgia passes law to kneecap bail funds, ACLU sues, fed'l judge puts 14-day hold on law. What's at stake:
@micahinATL
@hannahcrileyy
@RevSouthNolan
@will_potter
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ICYMI: Slain activist Tortuguita's father told me: “They didn’t use body cams when they killed my son – but they did use them when they came to inform me about killing my son.”
@Nataanii_Means
@hannahcrileyy
@will_potter
@_rshapiro
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Atlanta city employee telling 100’s in line to sign up for public comment to City Council against Cop City — and says more than 7 hrs of comment already registered.
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Cops making sure pizza’s safe for 100’s at Atlanta City Hall giving public comment agt “Cop City”
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DOZENS facing felony charges, no indictments months later, lives changed: I talked w/ppl arrested in connection w/Cop City abt how they're doing.
@will_potter
@SDonziger
@micahinATL
@marisapk
@MariahforAthens
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Devin Franklin, of So. Ctr. for Human Rts., to Atlanta city council: “you want to build a new shooting range. We dont want a new shooting range— we want you to stop shooting us.”
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Slain activist Tortuguita’s mother Belkis gives police helicopters the finger as march winds up..
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ICYMI: Ga.'s Dep. AG says in court Atlanta cops don't use Signal to communicate abt. "Cop City." My reporting says they do. Now what?
@will_potter
@lucyparsonslabs
@avitale
@hannahcrileyy
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Ga. prosecutor somehow ties "Cop City" defendant to Zapatistas, tells judge he's worried US may need to start a war w/Mexico over prosecution...
@will_potter
@dnbrgr
@defendATLforest
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Police have showed up at Emory’s school of religion where abt 500 students are protesting
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HAPPENING NOW at Atlanta’s Emory Univ., after 20+ ppl, incl. students and faculty, were arrested, tear-gassed and tazed this AM:
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"Nobody wants to talk about Covid," I was told for this story – and the disproportionate number of Black and Latino children who have lost parents or caretakers to the virus.
@uche_blackstock
@AmmahStarr
@gregggonsalves
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IN press conf. aftr SWAT raid, Atlanta mayor Dickens on right way “to make your voice heard” on 'Cop City': “going to city council” meetings–but same council won't count/verify 100k+ petition sign's fm voters wanting to decide on project:
@micahinATL
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Slain activist Tortuguita's dad told me: “They didn’t use body cams when they killed my son – but they did use them when they came to inform me about killing my son.”
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In Atlanta tonight we honored the 80+ journalists the IDF has killed. It was cold, a biting wind, a rain holding back; candles burned in memoriam. (
@fizapirani
's fotos.)
@thizz843
@micahinATL
@will_potter
@thrasherxy
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Atl City Councilman Michael Julian Bond told me record-breaking 7+ hrs of pub. comment ag't "Cop City" dsnt chg his mind re. $31 mn for proj. Comments incl'd "errors."
13 other members didnt even reply!
@micahinATL
@SDonziger
@MariahforAthens
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@sahilkapur
@Sen_JoeManchin
Sooo…cant political reporters ask the all-important folo ups? “Can you give an ex. of how you think Ho is extreme?” “What do you mean by center?”
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The scene at Emory Univ., where stud’s r protesting Cop City
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Atlanta daily AJC recently editorialized that Emory students linking Israel and Cop City must be evidence of outsiders. But my reporting shows the Atlanta campus has seen connections between the two for some time:
@thrasherxy
@hannahcrileyy
@micahinATL
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Abt 400 marching agt cop city in Sweet Auburn, MLK Jr’s neighborhood:
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Members of the public wait to sign up for public comment at Atlanta City Hall, bfr council votes on $67 mn for “Cop City,” a police/ fire dept training ctr planned to be built in S. River Forest. 100’s of ppl will likely brk record for civic particip. in council mtng.
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MY dispatch fm. Emory is the Most Viewed story on the Guardian's website right now, meaning millions of ppl. worldwide are seeing Atlanta, a repressive university and violent police as connected:
@mariahforathens
@micahinATL
@will_potter
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AS signatures to put Cop City on ballot in Nov. nr. 10k in less than a wk, a reminder: Richard Powers, who won Pulitzer for "The Overstory" – a novel abt "forest defenders" facing outcomes similar to those in Atl –
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@MariahforAthens
@billmckibben
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Rally re. RICO charges against Cop City activists in Atlanta:
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Georgia AG tries to use slain activist “Tortuguita’s” diary as evidence against others, using “smear tactics and falsehoods”:
@dnbrgr
@MariahforAthens
@micahinATL
@jccfergie
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At least 3k volunteers ready in first few days after Atlanta referendum to stop Cop City announced - despite “atmosphere of repression”
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ICYMI: as thousands come to
#StopCopCity
"Week of Action" in Atl this week, here's where I looked at how we got to this place, and what could have been:
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@defendATLforest
@atlanta_press
@micahinATL
@will_potter
@UR_Ninja
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Pablo Milanés has died, at 77 yrs old...I've always found it difficult to explain to ppl in the US what nueva trova , Pablo Milanés meant to Latin America. So much hope, so much poetry, for so many.
Que lamentable la partida de Pablo Milanés, pero lo recordaremos con esta buena canción
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@maria_m_town
Let's not forget: in areas w/o robust public transportation, like Atlanta metro area, Uber (and Lyft) is how workers get around. Here's what Uber is telling drivers this AM:
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Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement
@micahinATL
@defendATLforest
@atlanta_press
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While awaiting next step in historic RICO chg's, some of the Cop City 61 spoke w/me abt their previous exper's in jail in connection w/opposition to the police training ctr. – incl. unexplained solitary confinement.
@micahinATL
@dnbrgr
@MariahforAthens
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March against Cop City svl miles fm site where police training center is planned..while police fly above, and mobile altar to slain activist brings up rear
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Georgia won't release evidence from police shooting of Cop City activist. Samuel Sinyangwe, founder of the Police Scorecard, told me he had "not heard of another case like this":
@samswey
@NPAP_NLG
@equalityAlec
@micahinATL
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Tents slashed and supplies destroyed: ‘Cop City’ activists describe police intimidation
@SDonziger
@UR_Ninja
@atlanta_press
@defendATLforest
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Altanta City Council’s finance committee abt to meet re $31 mn for “Cop City.” So ofc Atl Police Dept reserves seats normally occupied by public.
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Organizers told me recent arrests of
@ATLSolFund
members made abt a dozen nonprofits afraid to act as fiscal sponsors for a "Cop City" referendum. This is what "chilling effect" means.
@SDonziger
@MariahforAthens
@BerniceKing
@equalityAlec
@will_potter
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NOW: protestors marching across Atlanta’s Emory Univ. campus:
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Georgia Attorney General relents, allows defense attorneys to visit Cop City site and the forest, alleged “scene of crime” — after media coverage and public pressure
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EXCLUSIVE: what does flier say that put 3 activists in jail and charged w/felony intimidating a police officer?
@atlanta_press
@micahinATL
@kamaufranklin
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@miwine
Regardless of what you think of him, any time the Times quotes him in a story abt Ga. and elex, esp. when he either is uncritical of the $107 mn system the st. has bought, why wdn't you point his contractual relationship w/the st. out?
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Re. a new task force meant to draw outside opinion on "Cop City," Atl. Police Fd'n wrote: “We’re confident it will underscore wide community support” – bfr it had even met!
A look at the Atl. info ecosystem on Cop City:
@kamaufranklin
@will_potter
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The scene at forest SE of Atlanta Sunday pm, where dozens of police threatened ppl @ music fest w/arrest for domestic terrorism if they didn't leave, and sought to detain others for having mud on their shoes:
@MariahforAthens
@SDonziger
@micahinATL
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Historian
@dnbrgr
: "“[a] common strategy of police work is, when a movement reaches a point of threat...[to] begin actively trying to scare them out of existence – showing them they know where they live, who they hang out with”.
@avitale
@micahinATL
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Tortuguita's father, Joel: "...you forgot your suitcase. But you won’t be needing it in the journey you’re on..."
@defendATLforest
@atlanta_press
@MariahforAthens
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Happening now: organizers in front of City Hall, turning in 116k signatures fm Atlanta voters to get qu. of whether Cop City shd. be built
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Second motion filed in recent weeks centering on Ga. Dep. Attorney General John Fowler's mishandling of unprecedented RICO case ag't 61 Cop City activists, incl. ignoring judge's deadline:
@neonflag
@equalityAlec
@micahinATL
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ATL making history: in south, statewide referendums not in constitutions, since "most states with slaves did not want to create the opportunity for people to directly decide on policies" – but municipalities can.
@will_potter
@RevSouthNolan
@SDonziger
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‘Cop city’ backers and opponents battle for public opinion over $90m project
@RevSouthNolan
@micahinATL
@MariahforAthens
@AlexJosephATL
@atlanta_press
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BROKE NEWS earlier this AM re. fed'l invest. into Atlanta's Emory U. launched on Tue., over treatment of Palestinian, Muslim and/or Arab students opposed to 34k+ deaths in Gaza:
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ICYMI: Read my story to see the sorts of qu's we can't answer abt. the Atl. Police Fd'n, the force behind "Cop City" – bcs. they don't answer Public Records requests. This may be 1st lawsuit of its kind:
@equalityAlec
@CommunityMvt
@ChuckModi1
@MattACPC
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GA'S Next Secretary of State?
In 1979, President Carter said he would double the number of refugees we received from Vietnam per month — 7,000 to 14,000. 62% of Americans disapproved.
Thanks to his courage, my parents made it here. Our big, fat Viet family in 1981.
Happy 97th birthday, President Carter! ❤️
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NOW: Crowds have grown in 3rd day at Atlanta’s Emory Univ.; an Emory healthcare staffer addresses protestors:
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@ben_brasch
@CobbNewsNow
@ajc
@PoliticallyGa
Is it just turnout, or are there problems at polling site?
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GREAT THREAD re. person who will likely lead training efforts if "Cop City" police/fire dept training ctr is built. Amazing when u look at the career trajectory of some of these folks:
I keep seeing people ask
#StopCopCity
activists the same question:
“bUt IsN’t MoRe TrAiNiNg A gOoD tHiNg?”
The short answer is, of course, NO!
#AbolishThePolice
Let’s do a quick THREAD 🧵🪡 about the person who heads up training for Atlanta Police Department:
Fred Watson.
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HEY Y'ALL, don't forget the 3rd race when u vote tomorrow:
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Happening now: marked contrast between scene at Atlanta’s Emory University rn and this AM, when police tear-gassed and tazed students
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UGA Law School Dean “Bo” Rutledge has ordered the school’s 1st Am. Law Clinic to back off a lawsuit ag’t the Atl Police Fdn. re. Cop City records, and to stop all open records wk.:
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🧵The ONLY Atl City Councilperson to spk w me re. record-b'king 7+ hrs of pub. comment last wk was Michael Julian Bond, 1 of 2 longest-serving members. He "appreciated their passion," but was "obligated" to give $31 mn to "Cop City." What didn't
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