Sam Worley Sam Worley is a writer in Georgia and a former editor at Atlanta magazine and the Chicago Reader. Their work has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Popula, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

No Atlanta Way | Stop Cop City Meets the Establishment

Sam Worley

Two years in a row, on the very same day, police descended on the campus of Emory University, an elite private school on the leafy eastern edges of Atlanta. In the spring of 2023, students staked tents on the university’s quad, agitating against the construction of a controversial police training center in a forest south of Atlanta. Opponents had nicknamed the hundred-million-dollar facility “Cop City” for all the amenities that...