{"id":128235,"date":"2024-04-03T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=128235"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:13:32","slug":"2-training-center-protesters-lock-themselves-to-crane-at-west-midtown-construction-site-in-stop-copy-city-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=128235","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;2 training center protesters lock themselves to crane at West Midtown construction site [in Stop Copy City protest]&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/public-safety-training-center-protests-cop-city-construction-site-west-midtown\/85-475512cd-9d28-4dc9-9208-840143a0976b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11Alive<\/a>: &#8220;Protesters opposed to the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center disrupted a construction site early Wednesday morning by locking themselves to a 250-foot crane, activists said, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/peachtree-street-portion-closed-police-activity-cop-city-protesters\/85-3b8fe328-509c-49bd-9573-9957c18ff684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at least the third<\/a>\u00a0such protest action\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/midtown-protesters-chained-construction-equipment-stop-cop-city-movement\/85-6f4c5061-6b45-486b-a5b9-8d0c47d6d422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in recent months<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group &#8220;Drop Cop City&#8221; issued a release saying the protest targeted a site at 11th Street and Bellingrath Avenue, which is situated between Northside Drive and Howell Mill Road. Some road access was blocked in the area due to the police response around 6 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar protest actions, also involving activists locking themselves to construction equipment, occurred at other Midtown construction sites earlier this month and in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday morning&#8217;s protest, like the prior two instances, targeted the contracting company Brasfield &amp; Gorrie, which is involved in the building of the police and fire training center that opponents call &#8220;Cop City.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The release issued by activists said the two activists scaled the crane and draped a &#8220;large vertical banner that read &#8216;Drop Cop City'&#8221; and then &#8220;used reinforced pipes to attach themselves to the ladder system within the frame of the crane, blocking access to the crane&#8217;s control tower and effectively shutting down the machine.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11Alive: &#8220;Protesters opposed to the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center disrupted a construction site early Wednesday morning by locking themselves to a 250-foot crane, activists said, in\u00a0at least the third\u00a0such protest action\u00a0in recent months. The group &#8220;Drop Cop City&#8221; issued a release saying the protest targeted a site at 11th Street and Bellingrath Avenue,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128236,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128235\/revisions\/128236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}