Furious battle at Atlanta forest defense gains cops only a tiny clearing by existing powerline cut

In addition to scenes.noblogs.org https://twitter.com/mphproject and https://twitter.com/defendATLforest are also covering the intense fight to defend the Atlanta Forest and stop the Cop City/Black Hall sound studio project. On the 3ed of August they reported an intense confrontation, with flaming barricades set but possibly breached, one arrest, but after a day of battle the cops had gained very little ground. They were able to clear only a tiny area of forest adding to the existing powerline cut possibly near an existing entrance to the forest.
No attempt was made to remove the heavily defended treesits.

It appears this is part of an attempt to install a natural gas pipeline, presumably the distribution line so the police training facility and Black Hall’s sound stages can have gas heat in the winter.

Some on Twitter have invoked fears that this could end up like MOVE, but MOVE was defending a single fortified rowhouse from the Philadelphia cops when the cops dropped a single improvised bomb (an IED) from a helicopter. While many indeed fear this situation too could end in extreme police violence, the air power available to the Dekalb County cops etc is insufficient for a bombing campaign against a large forested area. There would be no way to cover up an attempt,and the response from activists coast to coast would be withering and cost the government many,many times the value of this dispute. In the current, near-civil war political environment such violence by police anywhere could set off a hurricane of fighting everywhere. The Trump-loving MAGAts and open Fascists would probably scream, and from there matters could escalate completely out of control.

Here is the burning barricade, looks like burning tires from the smoke and configuration:

twitter(dot)com/MPHProject/status/1554837639924105222 photo (note that the ? and everything after it in the twitter URL has been removed to blind Twitter’s tracker, link broken to prevent Twitter and its TRACKERS from loading with this page, replace (dot) with . to use the link)

THIS is all they got:

(new cut is the path on top left of the powerline cut

Another view of the same cut, both from
twitter(dot)com/defendATLforest/status/1554979418023542786