The Atlanta Police Department plans to turn 300 acres of forest into a training facility. “This has been treated as a carceral space since European contact, and Cop City would be a continuation of that,” a professor of Native American Studies said.
of the facility and has only sometimes disclosed its owner’s contributions to the A.P.F.
On a morning in June, along a dirt path piled with food and camping supplies, I met a young woman who introduced herself as Rutabaga. She is one of a few dozen people who have relocated to the forest since late last year. They call themselves forest defenders; some have lived in tree houses and encampments for months at a time, working to stop what they call Cop City, a name inspired by the mock village planned for the police- and fire-training facility.
Twig told me about a “long personal history of facing brutality from the state”—they declined to share the details—and said that they had come to the forest so “that that doesn’t happen to other people.” Twig described seeing and hearing disturbing things in the forest, including screams from a nearby juvenile-detention center and “sunken rectangles that are roughly human size.
At the end of July, someone set fire to a truck that had hauled construction equipment to a trailside parking lot. On its charred remains were scrawled the words “No Cop City” and “No Hollywood Distopia.” A few days after the apparent arson, I asked a representative of the forest defenders about it. “We don’t know if it was somebody we know or just, like, somebody taking an autonomous action,” this person told me.
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