Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Tonight, we take a look
Speaker 1: at Atlanta, which is getting crazy. I'm talking waffle house crazy.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's busy downtown descended into chaos over the weekend. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of protesters marched in the streets in the wake of
Speaker 1: the death of a twenty six year old environmental activists.
Speaker 1: The activist was killed on Wednesday as officers clear protesters
Speaker 1: from the site of a planned police training center. Police
Speaker 1: training center, But these guys are trained, right, This isn't
Speaker 1: an arm militia of interns. Back before things got this bad,
Speaker 1: I went to Atlanta and met with local activists Jasmine Burnett.
Speaker 1: Atlanta Police Foundation is building a massive urban warfare training
Speaker 1: facility with bombs, testings, tear gas explosions, are shooting range,
Speaker 1: getting people marched to defund the police. They looked like
Speaker 1: a refunded Activists have dubbed this development cops City and
Speaker 1: acre ninety million dollar complex including a shooting ring, burned buildings,
Speaker 1: and a mock city that includes apartments at school, even
Speaker 1: a bar. So this is basically six flags for the police. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a playground. You can't call it a playground or
Speaker 1: which you read there's literally a playground. But I had
Speaker 1: a dream about how they could make this project more
Speaker 1: appealing to activists. We name it after Montin Luther Camp
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Tyler Perry presents the training facility. The name
Speaker 1: doesn't change the impact until you don't watching on Tyler Perry.
Speaker 1: Not only is Cops City increasing police militarization, it's also
Speaker 1: threatening the environment for more. I spoke with Jackie Echoes,
Speaker 1: an activists who unfortunately didn't want to meet at a
Speaker 1: sofie place. Why can't we just talk on the dirt stop?
Speaker 1: You know how many interviews occur on dry land. Jackie
Speaker 1: took me out in the South River, part of a
Speaker 1: designated acre preserve, which also includes the land where they
Speaker 1: want to build Cops City. So why was the public
Speaker 1: park suddenly getting turned into cop Chilla? Honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: think it would happen anywhere else. Why is that the
Speaker 1: history of this watershed, the color of this watershed, makes
Speaker 1: it possible here? What color is that? That color is black.
Speaker 1: The folks that are affected are black and powerless. And
Speaker 1: that's the definition of environmental racism. That's what the trees
Speaker 1: called you. The inverg right Because I kept pretending I
Speaker 1: knew how to kayak. Jackie explained how the black neighborhoods
Speaker 1: around Coops City already flood every time it rains, and
Speaker 1: this development will only make that worse. Southeast Atlanta has
Speaker 1: had flooding problems. However, you paid acres, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a whole lot more funding. Do you know what they say?
Speaker 1: Pay paradise and build a ten million dollar parking line.
Speaker 1: Activists like Jackie and Jasmine have been campaigning against Cops
Speaker 1: City using legal avenues, but others have been like screw it,
Speaker 1: I'm going full mad mass protesters through at least one
Speaker 1: molotov cocktail. Protesters set fire to a construction workers truck.
Speaker 1: Activists calling themselves forest Defenders have been occupying the woods
Speaker 1: around the Cops City building site for over a year. So,
Speaker 1: against my better judgment, I headed to one of their encampments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Barry Kage burnt out truck in a pretty pretty normal place.
Speaker 1: I met with Tsabo and green Grass, two forest defenders
Speaker 1: who were going to give me a tour of the
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, who the hell is this all right?
Speaker 1: I think that's the police rolling up. Yeah, because we're
Speaker 1: trying to obstruct their projects to green Grass just took
Speaker 1: off green Grass on the police. I understand it's a
Speaker 1: black thing. Yeah, let's go this way. I'd rather take
Speaker 1: my chance with the Georgia e Walks than the cops.
Speaker 1: So I followed green Grass and Sambo into the woods.
Speaker 1: So I just got here and the police just ran
Speaker 1: us into the forest. Is that normal? Yes, they come
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday just to terrorize us like police do.
Speaker 1: Some of the forest defenders have a twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollar bounty on their head, so they mask up to
Speaker 1: discuss their identity, and some are even taking a cue
Speaker 1: from old school t pain. This is a plantation, shun
Speaker 1: historically and ex prison farm. To be honest, I wish
Speaker 1: I had an auto tune I could speak in because
Speaker 1: you've just made prison farm industrial complex sounds so melody.
Speaker 1: They led me to the living room one of their
Speaker 1: encampments with kind of horror film find rest in the
Speaker 1: living room. Yeah, don't don't just say press, you got
Speaker 1: to say Roy Wood Jr. You know him from deaf
Speaker 1: comedy jam HBO's one of the best comedy comedians to
Speaker 1: do it. Oh no, no, um. This living room is
Speaker 1: used as our community function Bingo. Yeah, that beingo night.
Speaker 1: Where's the multiv cocktail station, Where's the gun training station?
Speaker 1: The majority of us just want to live in peace
Speaker 1: with each other. We work here on ourselves, and we
Speaker 1: do yoga and we meditate, get massages here, but you'll
Speaker 1: get massagest you do yoga, meditate, stretch and deal with
Speaker 1: your inner like therapy. Has that had any type of
Speaker 1: effect on stopping cops city from coming. Yeah, their construction
Speaker 1: only gotten like two days in the past year, and
Speaker 1: one of the primary construction firms dropped out. According to
Speaker 1: leak documents, the top city building plan, it's months behind schedule.
Speaker 1: This scrunched granilla ship seems to be working, but forest
Speaker 1: defenders say law enforcement has stepped up raids on their camps,
Speaker 1: so they built barricades and they avoid police by living
Speaker 1: in tree houses like some sort of Antifa Swiss family. Robinson, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's about fifty ft in the air. Yeah, tree
Speaker 1: sitters may drop things, body grab bees. He just said
Speaker 1: that they dropped paper bags to ship. Well, if the
Speaker 1: cops are in here and you can't come down from
Speaker 1: the tree, it's a lot of different ways to protest.
Speaker 1: Why is your way live? In the treehouse eight feet
Speaker 1: up and drop ship in paper bag. We have to
Speaker 1: stop cop city because they're practicing to murder us. They're
Speaker 1: practicing obamas. They're practicing how to um come into our
Speaker 1: homes more effectively while we're sleep. The alternative is staying here,
Speaker 1: shipping in a bag sometimes or way down and watch
Speaker 1: the world burn. Anyone up there, please don't drop ship
Speaker 1: on us. This is my only suit. Sends my visit
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Force. Police raids and arrests have only
Speaker 1: been more frequent, culminating in last week's shooting. Police don't
Speaker 1: usually target protesters like this in America, but if they
Speaker 1: go after celebrity journalists. Next, good thing. I got rid
Speaker 1: of my phone in the wood so the police can't
Speaker 1: track me. Oh ship, How am I supposed to get
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