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October 2, 2023

Protesters Rally to Oppose Police Training Center in San Pablo, CA
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In California, protesters gathered in the city of San Pablo Saturday to
condemn the proposed construction of a $43 million police training
center and shooting range. The city northeast of San Francisco has
already fenced off a massive piece of land where the complex will stand
- directly across the street from the San Pablo City Hall. Protesters
invoked the fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, where dozens have been
charged with domestic terrorism over their opposition to that site. This
is a San Pablo demonstrator speaking anonymously for safety.

Protester: "It's no wonder that after 2020 and the most massive sort of
upsurge of anti-police antagonism in the United States, that the
proposed plans for police training facilities are popping up all over
the country, right? So they want to better prepare, basically, for
counterinsurgency, better prepare to police and murder Black and Brown
communities and people who seek to establish their freedom."



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