Atlanta Police arrested a man who locked himself to equipment at a Midtown construction site in protest of the city’s public safety training center on Thursday morning.
According to APD Zone 5 Commander Major Christian Hunt, officers responded to the site at the intersection of Peachtree and 17th Streets around 5:45 a.m.
A man who claimed to be a “Stop Cop City” protester had attached himself to equipment using an improvised device known as a “sleeping dragon” with his hands inside pieces of pipe and bound together to make it more difficult for removal.
Hunt said the 34-year-old male – identified as Michael Czajkowski in a press release sent to local media by”Stop Cop City” organizers – will be charged with trespassing. Several other protesters who were chanting on the sidewalk were not arrested but dispersed after Czajkowski was taken into custody.
This is the second time this year that protesters have used a similar method to disrupt a Brasfield & Gorrie work site in Midtown. The company is one of the contractors building the training center in southeast Atlanta.
The incident forced the closure of Peachtree Street in both directions during rush hour, but Hunt said the incident was cleared by 8 a.m.
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