Protester killed after shooting cop near where controversial police training center set to be built: Police
An officer is in the hospital and the man who shot him has been killed following a confrontation in a wooded area near where a police training center is set to be built. An officer is in the hospital and the man who shot him has been killed following a confrontation in a wooded area near where a police training center is set to be built , police said. The incident occurred at approximately 9 a.m. in a wooded area just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, at the site of a proposed law enforcement training center. “As law enforcement was moving through the property, officers located a man inside a tent in the woods,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a statement following the incident. “Officers gave verbal commands to the man who did not comply and shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper.” Police returned fire on the man -- who died on scene -- and the injured Georgia State Patrol Trooper who was hit in the shooting was evacuated to a safe area before being taken to hospital wh...