The spirit of resistance to this attack on the right to dissent was evidenced again Sept. 8, as a multinational, multigenerational demonstration gathered outside Carr’s office across the street from the State Capitol.
The Movement to Stop Cop City is fueled by the unabated deaths at the hands of police, including 62-year-old church deacon John Hollman, who was tased to death following a minor traffic accident on Aug. 11, and six deaths in six weeks at the Fulton County Detention Center, the latest being 24-year-old Shawndre Delmore from cardiac arrest (!) on Sept. 3.
These tragedies converged with the continuing pollution of the South River by the clearing of thousands of trees at the Cop City site and the ongoing media lies and political attacks from the Atlanta Police Foundation, intended to whitewash the reactionary and racist purpose of the police-training facility.
😞 I don’t get the emojis on lemmygrad lol. I only see like 20 of them in the list, and none of the ones I try manually ever work.
we don’t have the Hexbear emojis, but the Lemmygrad ones should autocomplete, e.g.
:xi-point:expands towhich results inAh I see the issue is on my end. When I tried Xi-point the list flashed up for a fraction of a second then disappeared.
but it does work. I just don’t know our list codes I guess.