this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training facil
what it means to be a black man underneath the crushi i ing glaf the spotlight. it s spot-on, spot-on statement, spot-on passage. there were opportunities there for chris rock to push the conversation forward. you know, one of my criticisms from last year, you know, wasn t just about the violence that happened on stage, but also the fact that i felt that chris was kind of lazy in doing a j.i. jane joke to begin with in 2022, especially after, you know, if you want to talk about bald black woman, you have all of wakanda to make that joke, but there was an opportunity for chris to not just talk about will smith s unresolved anger, but if you listen to chris rock, i felt like he was still very angry and hadn t processed a lot of things. he made a joke that everybody basically in the hip-hop community, you know, thought he was emasculated. how emasculated did he feel knowing that he was the one person that will smith felt