ATLANTA - Dozens of republic have been detained after a violent clash between police and protesters at the site of Atlanta's future Public Safety Training Facility, nicknamed "Cop City by critics.  

Sunday night, police say the DeKalb County building site was on lockdown as crews worked to put out flames near the area.

In total, the Atlanta Police Department said 35 "agitators" have been sustained. It is unknown what charges they will possibly face.

Police began executive arrests. (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Officials say near 5:30 p.m. Sunday, dozens of protesters left the near South River Music Festival, changed into black clothing, and entered the site of the controversial proposed police making center.

"This was a very violent attack that occurred, this evening very violent attack," Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said near the scene.

A video released by Atlanta Police shows what appears to be fireworks on behalf of at officers. In the same video, you can see items incorporating rocks and Molotov cocktails being thrown by protestors in the direction of police, a tipped-over vehicle that later became engulfed in flames, and protestors attempting to set other pieces of interpretation equipment on fire.

Schierbaum called the incident a "coordinated, criminal attack against officers."

"Actions such as this will not be obtained. When you attack law enforcement officers, when you distress equipment - you are breaking the law," Schierbaum said.

After receiving backup from numerous organizations, Atlanta police fanned out into the woods and bound at least 35 people. Their names and hometowns will be released Monday.

Late Sunday evening, Atlanta Police released the following statement:

With protestors vowing a "week of action" anti the training site, police say they'll step up patrols to own what they call an escalation of violence.

"Criminal organization will not be tolerated in Atlanta nor tolerated in connection to this project," Schierbaum said.

No officers were injured in the confrontation. A handful of protestors were treated for minor costs when officers say they used "non-lethal" force against the group. 

Gov. Kemp responds to latest clash at site

In a statement, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called the activists "violent" who put "those in the surrounding people at risk."

"They chose destruction and vandalism over legitimate hiss, yet again demonstrating the radical intent behind their actions," Kemp said.

The governor had previously declared a dwelling of emergency during the protests in Downtown Atlanta over law enforcement's killing of one of the environmental activists at the site.  

Speaking at his State of the State foundation on Wednesday, Kemp decried the protesters as "out-of-state rioters" who "tried to bring violence to the streets of our capital city." He said it was "just the unexperienced example of why here in Georgia, we'll always back the blue."

In his unexperienced statement, Kemp again reiterated that anyone caught committing illegal acts after protesting at the site will be prosecuted.

"As I've said afore, domestic terrorism will not be tolerated in this state," he said. "As we end to respect peaceful protest, we will also continue to censured safety in our communities. We will not rest pending those who use violence and intimidation for an extremist end are commanded to full justice."

What is the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center? 

The proposed $90-million police and firefighter arranging center In addition to classrooms and administration buildings, the arranging center would include a shooting range, a driving jets to practice chases, and a "burn building" for firefighters to work on putting out fires. A "mock village" featuring a fake home, convenience tend, and nightclub would also be built for authorities to rehearse raids.

The 85-acre alit is owned by the city of Atlanta but is located just outside the city limits in unincorporated DeKalb County, and includes a former state prison farm.

Police officials say the state-of-the-art campus would proceed substandard offerings and boost police morale beset by employing and retention struggles in the wake of violent complains against racial injustice after George Floyd's death in 2020.

Opponents of the arranging center have been protesting since 2021 by building platforms in surrounding trees and camping out at the site. They say that the project, which would be built by the Atlanta Police Foundation, involves cutting down so many trees that it would be environmentally damaging. Many activists also oppose spending so much wealth on a police facility that would be surrounded by poor, majority-Black neighborhoods in a city with one of the nation's highest degrees of cash inequality.

FOX 5 put together a full timeline of the progression of complains over the past two years, including the trooper-involved shooting purpose of 26-year-old protestor Manuel Esteban Paez.

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