Protesters coming from afar to fight Ga. police training site

remember when a cop would shoot some POS and they'd say police need more/better training?
i remember


Protesters coming from afar to fight Ga. police training site



ATLANTA (CBS46) - The Atlanta Police Department has released the names of the seven people arrested this week during a protest at the future site of a police training facility.

They were arrested Tuesday near the planned site Atlanta Police Foundation’s Public Safety Training Center in DeKalb County, according to the Atlanta Police Department. DeKalb Police and the Georgia State Patrol assisted the Atlanta Police Department with the arrests.


Atlanta police said the protesters threw what appeared to be Molotov cocktails and rocks at their officers during the incident. Fortunately, no one was injured.

“The action today was to remove some illegal structures that had been built on the site and on the property. While individuals were there. They were approached by persons that started throwing rocks started throwing rocks at the police officers, as well as the device that we believe to be a Molotov cocktail at the officers,” Assistant Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.

A spokesperson for the department said many of the protesters at this protest and others are from other states. That would seem to be the case, based on who was arrested: 28-year-old Phillip A. Flagg of Worchester, Mass.; 38-year-old Lee Ana-Gypsy of Gainesville; 24-year-old Elizabeth Hoitt-Lange of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; 27-year-old Erin Brault of Sykesville, Md.; 28-year-old Madeleine Kodat of Philadelphia; and 23-year-old Abigail E. Skapyak of Minneapolis.

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