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6 arrested after violent protesters cause mayhem, set APD car on fire in downtown Atlanta – WSB-TV Channel 2
ATLANTA — A peaceful protest in downtown Atlanta turned violent Saturday evening when protesters set a police car on fire and started smashing windows.
Six protesters were arrested, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum announced in a news conference on Saturday night. Those people have not been identified and their charges have not been released.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said several of those who were arrested do not live in the Atlanta area or in Georgia.
Hundreds of protesters, who are opposed to the construction of an APD training center, gathered at Underground Atlanta before moving down Peachtree St. in the heart of downtown Atlanta.
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Chief Schierbaum said a group of the protesters dressed in all black then began peacefully marching down Peachtree St. When they got to the intersection of Ellis Street, some of the protesters began breaking windows and attacking APD patrol cars. One of the APD cruisers was set on fire.
Within two blocks, Atlanta police officers on the scene had stopped the violence from spreading further into downtown. Chief Schierbaum said the group’s intention was to continue causing damage.
Three businesses, including a Wells Fargo bank, were damaged, Schierbaum said.
No officers or citizens were injured.
Spokespeople with “Stop Cop City,” who have claimed several times that they are peaceful protesters, released a statement saying they are not backing down and do not believe their actions on Saturday night are violent.
“Destruction of material is fundamentally different from violence. All reported acts appear to be explicitly targeted against the financial backers & goons of the Atlanta Police Foundation, a shady nonprofit that funnels weapons and military gear into our city to wage war on black and brown folks. The police have raided the forest for over 7 months, destroying material by trashing camps and water supplies, threatened the lives of forest defenders and now have murdered one. Protestors are only leveling the playing field & preventing future violence by disabling the economic machine of the Atlanta Police Foundation that seeks to sterilize all life within the Weelaunee Forest.”
They later released an amended statement that read:
“What is the proper reaction to police killing Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Teran? Destruction of material is fundamentally different from the violence that led to extinguishing someone’s light. We are seeing what we have seen across the country, a community in grief seeking accountability against the financial backers and goons of the Atlanta Police Foundation, a shady nonprofit that funnels weapons and military gear into our city to wage war on Black, Indigenous, Brown and poor folks in the community. The police have evoked violence when they raided the forest for over 7 months, destroying material by trashing camps and water supplies and threatening the lives of forest defenders. It seems the community is trying to disable the economic machine of the Atlanta Police Foundation that seeks to sterilize all life within the Weelaunee Forest to protect the community they love from further violence.“
Mike Register, the Director of the GBI, said the protesters are not peaceful, but were violent on many occasions.
“Arson, attacking citizens, shooting police officers, using explosives,” Register said at a news conference Wednesday.
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Earlier this week, Georgia State Patrol and other agencies were at the site of the proposed facility clearing protesters who had been camped out in the forest for months.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says one of the protesters, Manuel Teran, shot a state trooper and was then killed by return fire.
Friends of Teran, who went by the nickname “Tortuguita,” have repeatedly claimed since the shooting that they are peaceful protesters.
Seven fellow protesters were arrested on Wednesday and charged with domestic terrorism and criminal trespass.
The governor’s office released a statement saying they will not tolerate any unlawful crimes in the name of peaceful protest.
The governor remains well informed of the situation through regular updates from state law enforcement and is actively monitoring the situation. State patrol is well equipped to respond to any and all threats to public safety and is coordinating closely with other state agencies and local PD.
While the state continues to respect peaceful protest, acts of violence against person or property will NOT be tolerated. Those committing such unlawful acts will be arrested and prosecuted fully.
A short time later, Governor Brian Kemp himself tweeted a statement.
Violence and unlawful destruction of property are not acts of protest. They are crimes that will not be tolerated in Georgia and will be prosecuted fully.
Thank you to the hardworking @ga_dps, @GBI_GA, @Atlanta_Police, and others actively keeping our streets safe tonight.
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) January 22, 2023
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr tweeted calling those involved “rioters.” Carr told Channel 2′s Mark Winne earlier this week he is working on a sweeping indictment to charge these protesters with domestic terrorism.
Atlanta police released the following statement to Channel 2 Action News:
“The Atlanta Police Department is aware of the ongoing events, and we will continue to monitor them and address accordingly. We stand ready to respond to demonstrations to ensure the safety of those in our communities and those exercising their first amendment right, or to address illegal activity, should the need arise.”
At 6:45 p.m., Atlanta police released an update saying:
“Atlanta Police have responded to a group damaging property at several locations along Peachtree St. Several arrests have been made at this time and order has been restored to the downtown space. This is still an active and ongoing investigation and we will not be able to provide specifics on arrests numbers or damaged property, at this time.”
Chief Schierbaum said the FBI, GBI, ATF and Georgia Attorney General’s Office are assisting them in their investigation.
Channel 2 Action News is working to get additional information.
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Downtown S.F.’s condo market is cratering, with units selling at reduced prices
San Francisco’s listless, post-COVID recovery is hammering the downtown condo market, with owners increasingly willing to sell at a discount amid ongoing tech layoffs and office closures, according to a new report from the real estate brokerage Compass.
Median condo sales prices in the greater downtown and South of Market district — which includes Civic Center, SoMa, Mission Bay, Yerba Buena and South Beach — are down 16.5% from a year ago, according to the report. Since December of last year, the condo median sales price dropped from $1.475 million to $1.23 million in those neighborhoods.
The drop in the median prices in downtown neighborhoods was double that of other parts of the city. Outside of downtown, median price of condos dropped 7% in the last year, while single family homes dropped 7.5%.
While real estate brokerages tend to be rosy in their marketing materials, the Compass report doesn’t sugarcoat the current situation. It concludes that the drop in demand is being driven by “a triple whammy of economic, demographic and quality-of-life issues.”
“I knew that market segment had weakened but I didn’t realize the degree to which things had changed,” said Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst for Compass. “It was a bit shocking.”
The problems are both macro and micro.
On the national level you have a declining stock market, rising interest rates and inflation. Meanwhile downtown San Francisco is lagging other cities in office occupancy, and the lack of foot traffic is crippling small business and making the streets feel less safe. The highrise housing that sprouted South of Market Street over the last 20 years was meant to serve the hundreds of thousands of workers who flooded into the city each morning. With those jobs gone remote, demand for housing has waned.
“San Francisco went from being the hottest office market in the world to just about the weakest,” said Carlisle.
Two recent reports of sales at Lumina, a two-tower luxury complex South of Market, show how the market has shifted, according to an analysis by Socketsite, an online publication that tracks San Francisco real estate.
The first involves a 1,791 square foot, three-bedroom, three-bath unit on the 32nd floor of the tower at 338 Main St. That unit sold for $3.25 million in May of 2016 and then traded again in August of 2019 for $3.5 million. In September of this year it hit the block again with a listing price of $3.15 million, before finally selling in November for $2.68 million, a drop of 23.4% since 2019.
Meanwhile a two-bedroom unit in the same tower is being marketed at $2.6 million, which, if it sells at that price, would represent a 21% decrease from its 2016 price of $3.295 million.
While the current market presents an opportunity for buyers, the rise of interest rates to a 20-year high offsets whatever savings might be gained through the lower price point, Carlisle said. But for buyers with cash for a down payment, or those willing to gamble that they will be able to refinance at a lower interest rate down the road, there are opportunities.
“This is a great time for buyers to negotiate extremely aggressively,” he said. “If you see a unit you like just ignore the asking price and decide what you are willing to pay for it. There are a lot of sellers who just want to move on. If they are able to close a deal, they will, even if it is far below expectations.”
Realtor Kevin Birmingham of Park North Real Estate said the report is consistent with what he is seeing around the city. He just sold one condo in the Twin Peaks area that was marketed at $695,000. It closed at $680,000. The seller expected to get $800,000.
As such, many would-be sellers are looking to rent their units. “Listing are getting withdrawn and going straight onto the rental market,” Birmingham said.
Gregg Lynn of Sotheby’s International Realty, who focuses on the luxury condo market, said the optimism of 2021 — when San Franciscans were getting vaccinated and starting to feel comfortable in crowds again — has given was to uncertainty.
Some families who bought before the pandemic expecting to split their time between San Francisco and wine country or Tahoe have found they don’t have much reason to come to the city. Others bought downtown condos to be near their children and grandchildren, only to have their offspring leave the city.
“A lot of our clients are not using their condos as much as they thought they would,” he said.
J.K. Dineen is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jdineen@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @sfjkdineen
Philadelphia 76ers’ $1.3 billion project calls for downtown arena by 2031-32
The Philadelphia 76ers are creating a new development company that will spearhead a $1.3 billion project to build a privately funded arena in the city’s downtown, the team announced Thursday morning.
While the 76ers don’t plan to be in the arena until the 2031-32 season — the season after the lease expires at their current home, Wells Fargo Center — and they won’t break ground on the new site for several years, the team said it will partner with Macerich, the operator of Fashion District Philadelphia, to bring the arena into being.
“We know the best thing, we believe, for the city, for our fans and for our organization, is to be downtown in a state-of-the-art facility that’s going to be privately funded by our ownership team,” Sixers president Tad Brown told ESPN. “And that’s going to create a brand-new environment, a whole new environment, that’s going to also really give a great economic boost in a development boost to a part of town that really needs it.
“We think it’s a win-win for the city and for our organization. … It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s a great day.”
Sixers co-owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer bought the franchise from Comcast in 2011 and have had designs on building their own arena in Philadelphia for several years. That included an attempted plan to build one at Penn’s Landing, on the East side of the city along the Delaware River. The plan ultimately fell through two years ago when the city chose to go with a different development plan.
At that point, Harris and Blitzer decided to team with David Adelman — a lifelong 76ers fan, a season-ticket holder for more than 20 years and a real estate developer — to form a partnership to deliver a new arena.
Adelman will be the chairman of a new company, 76 DevCorp, that he, Harris and Blitzer are creating. The company will be tasked with bringing the new arena from blueprints to reality.
“Honestly, when Penn’s Landing happened, yeah, I think one of the shortcomings was they realized that there was no Philadelphia person running the process,” Adelman told ESPN. “And no disrespect to New York or anywhere else, but like, you need local, right?”
Adelman said it is a dream come true to do a “legacy project” in Philadelphia that “my kids and grandkids will know that I revitalized a part of Market Street that was a little not living up to its full potential.”
“And to do it in this this partnership is just awesome,” he said.
Brown said the 76ers learned a lot through their setbacks with the Penn’s Landing proposal and that he applied those lessons to the new site. Brown and Adelman said they had already secured agreements with everyone involved necessary to get the project underway, including Macerich.
“I think we listened and we learned from the things that maybe we weren’t expecting for Penn’s Landing,” Brown said. “That’s why we came back with better infrastructure, with David Adelman in place. And also, you know, it’s all privately financed. So there’s nothing that we’re going to be asking from the state or the city that is going to go into this.
“[Asking for public subsidies] doesn’t play in Philly. … We wanted to take that question off the table, and we want to build the finest facility in the country with our own resources, so that we can give something to the city.”
Two significant questions remain: Will the 76ers stay at Wells Fargo Center for the duration of their lease — another nine seasons — and will the Flyers join them in the new endeavor?
Brown and Adelman insisted the 76ers had no plans to try to speed up the process to get into this new building sooner.
As for the Flyers, Brown said conversations with their co-tenants at Wells Fargo Center are ongoing. He said the 76ers would love to have the Flyers join them in the new venture but that the project would move forward regardless of the hockey team’s decision.
“But everybody knows that what we’re looking for organizationally is what’s going to be in the best interests of the city, of our fans and of our organization,” Brown said. “All we can be as transparent and open with Comcast as we can as we go forward.”
Currently, all four Philadelphia professional sports teams play in the same complex in South Philadelphia that has housed them for the past half-century. The 76ers, however, think breaking away from that tradition and building a downtown arena will provide fans with a much better experience.
“How many arenas have you been to in the urban core [of a city]? That’s where the puck is going,” Adelman said. “Right now, the sports complex in South Philly only has the Broad Street line, only one line. We’ve got every line.
“When you leave Wells Fargo Center, you can’t go have a drink, you can’t get something to eat. You have to go home, and you have to sit in this funnel to get into traffic. Right now, our fans are forced to leave like two minutes early, and we need to do something better. We need to give them this experience.”
Two manhole explosions reported in downtown Boston near South Station
“I just heard chaos,” said Kilmain, 26, of Abington. He saw smoke, people running, and the injured woman on a stretcher.
Boston Police Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a department spokesman, said officers initially responded to the first manhole fire when the second one also caught fire.
“A female victim was transported to the hospital with injuries, and she’s being evaluated at Tufts Medical Center,” said Boston Deputy Fire Chief Brian Tully in a briefing at the scene. “When I pulled up on scene … the first thing I noticed was the glass on the sidewalk, and heavy smoke venting through the manhole cover.”
Tully said one manhole cover was “definitely pushed off onto the sidewalk. … It was several feet from the actual manhole, so it definitely … pressure lifted it up and it was tossed onto the sidewalk.”
The victim, Tully said, may have suffered a steam burn. Boyle said her injuries weren’t life-threatening.
“I think she may have been walking down the sidewalk when the manhole let go, but that’s speculation on my part at this point,” Tully said.
He added that utility crews were on scene to check for any natural gas issues resulting from the explosions, which prompted the evacuations of buildings at 175 Federal St. and 10 High St.
“We do have elevated levels of carbon monoxide [in thebuildings],” Tully said. “We’re in the process with positive pressure fans to bring the level down. … The levels are dropping dramatically.”
Tully said the elevated carbon monoxide levels were likely a “result” of the explosions.
“When we pulled up, there was a heavy smoke condition, especially out along that 10 High St.,” Tully said. “It’s been hot lately, so we’ve been using a lot of power around the city. So that probably, you know, it just kept on building up.”
Tully said officials hope the evacuated buildings will be able to reopen later Thursday.
“I think it’s just, you know, it’s Murphy’s Law,” Tully said. “When we use a ton of electricity and power, you know, the equipment’s just being overused, overtaxed, and eventually, you know, once in a while something breaks. But I believe the energy system in our city is safe.”
Ari Manakos, 30, of Dover, N.H, works at 155 Federal St. and said he could feel the building rumble while he was using a restroom.
”I was in the bathroom having a nice seat, and the room shook,” he said, while standing outside with some of his coworkers. “It was very, very audible. I felt the building rumble.”
He said he thought it was the elevator at first — until he heard the second explosion.
”It’s freaky,” he said. “No one wants to think about the concept of explosions happening.”
Another witness, Ashley Ventrillo, said she also heard both explosions.
“It was just terrifying because we didn’t know what was going on at the moment,” said Ventrillo, 25, of East Boston, who works for a law firm inside 175 Federal St.
She said she saw smoke coming from 10 High St. and detected a “horrible smell like gas.”
“It really sounded like a bomb,” she said. “When people started running, I started running because I was like, ‘I’m just gonna do what everybody else is doing.’”
Inside 175 Federal St., attorney Carmen Durso was preparing for a press conference at his desk on the fifth floor when, he said, he saw a strike of lightning between 10 High St. and 155 Federal St.
“I was startled because … it was clearly a lightning strike,” said Durso, a well-known attorney who represents sex abuse victims in civil proceedings. “And to see one between the buildings was just astounding. You would expect it to hit the buildings, but it very clearly came down there … it was immediate bang from the lightning and then the explosion.”
The lightning strike, Durso said, came seconds before the first explosion. He said he saw glass crash after the explosions and the power go out.
C.J. Certo, 29, was working at his computer at 155 Federal St. when he heard a “deep, really loud explosion,” he said at the scene.
“The building shook, kind of a quick jar and a human screamed,” Certo said.
He immediately fled the building.
”The boom and the scream were enough to get out of there,” Certo said. It smelled like ”chemical meets fear in the air,” he continued.
Some people’s natural instincts were to flee while others thought they were safer inside, Certo said.
”You could see the anxiety on people’s faces,” he said.
Eversource spokesman William Hinkle said the affected manholes belonged to the utility. He said no Eversource employees were working there at the time. The company now has crews on scene investigating the cause, he said, adding that no Eversource customers had lost electricity as a result of the blasts.
“We are working with the fire department and necessary utility companies … to conduct an investigation on the cause,” Hinkle said.
We currently have units on scene at High Street for manhole explosions. At this time, 1 patient has been transported to Tufts via an advanced life support @BOSTON_EMS ambulance.
— Boston EMS (@BOSTON_EMS) June 2, 2022
Traffic Advisory: Boston Police and Boston Fire are on scene at Federal Street on a report of man hole fires. Street closures are in effect. Pedestrian and Vehicular traffic will be impacted.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) June 2, 2022
Companies at 10 High st for 2 manhole fires that shattered the window of the building. 175 Federal and 10 High st. have been evacuated. pic.twitter.com/eWWPXE76bO
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) June 2, 2022
Companies are checking the surrounding buildings for any Smoke and using metered to check for elevated levels of Carbon Monoxide.1 person was transported by @BOSTON_EMS to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/0OIheXTr5r
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) June 2, 2022
Video posted to Twitter by 7News showed smoke billowing from the manhole as Boston firefighters and police responded to the scene.
Jennifer Peter and John Ellement of the Globe staff contributed to this story. This is a breaking story that will be updated when more information is available.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe. Matt Yan can be reached at matt.yan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @matt_yan12. Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @talanez.