straight year. it s partly why they have decided to build a training center outside the city limits and that didn t sit well with any neighboring activists. think seattle in 2020, during the called summer of love. for the latest we go to fox news correspondent kevin. tell us, what s going on there? suburban atlanta s version of chop, in atlanta they are calling it cop city did and just like the autonomous zone in seattle up during the summer is of violence back in 2020, atlanta s top city is becoming more violent by the day but law enforcement in georgia say they are committed to putting a stop to it. however, in response to that, violent antifa protestors are now calling for a night of rage after a raid of cop city left an activist dead and a state trooper injured. georgia state patrols swooped down on the autonomy zone at the site of the future $90 million atlanta public safety training center, in a clearing operation.
it happened on wednesday. that led to the shooting in question, in which a protestor shot at a trooper who then returned fire. law enforcement was doing a clearing operation, a legal operation, removing people that legally occupied a property, and someone on the property, as law enforcement came into view, initiated fire on the law enforcement entities and they returned fire in self-defense. the deceased protester and the state trooper are not being identified by authorities at this time, but we do know the trooper was taken to a local hospital, and underwent surgery. they are illegally occupying property and when we do a clearing operation it s pretty simple. we ask you to leave. you identify yourself. if there are no other criminal behavior, that we observe and you re compliant, then you leave the area. get out of there or else,
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anderson, that they have already moved away around 8,500 tons of debris in this operation. so this is de facto turning more and more into a clearing operation, even though the ukrainians say that they are going to try and find more people if they can. there are still people who are unaccounted for. at the same time, of course, we are hearing that massive anger from the ukrainian government, from the ukrainian president about this strike, saying that those who are behind it would be brought to justice. you know, i can tell you it is really an imposing sight to see just that gaping hole where a lot of families used to live and all of that of course caused by just one massive missile, anderson. if you could have your camera just push back into that shot just to see the work that s continuing to be done right now, we should point out given that it s been two more than two days, the temperatures there are freezing cold. so obviously if somebody was in the rubble, that would impact
and while they wait, these scenes repeat themselves again and again. and tonight an angry ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says ukraine has launched an investigation and vowed to bring those behind the strikes to justice in front of an international criminal court. he also said that the rescue and recovery effort is going on. essentially what we re seeing here on the ground right now is a clearing operation. the folks here are using some pretty heavy equipment already, and a staggering number for you, the ukrainians say they have already cleared around 8,500 tons of debris from here. this just goes to show the scale of destruction that was brought on by this missile strike, pamela. fred, thank you. ukraine appeals to allies for weaponry and defense systems. the u.s. is committed to sending ukraine the patriot defense system but would that have made a difference in repelling this