Over the past year and change, Atlanta’s Stop Cop City protesters have been primarily concerned with halting the construction of a massive police militarization complex in a forest southeast of the city limits. But on August 14, they turned their attention to another matter: the fact that former president Donald Trump was on the cusp of being indicted in Atlanta for attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential election.

Activists took the opportunity to highlight the undemocratic nature of the Cop City project. The ex-president wasn’t the only politician attempting to suppress the vote, they said in speeches outside the county building.

“The whole world is watching to see what happens when a black Democratic mayor decides that he wants to subvert democracy in the so-called ‘Black Mecca’ of the United States,” shouted Rev. Keyanna Jones, a member of the faith coalition opposing Cop City. “Isn’t this behaving exactly like the same bad actors that we saw after the presidential election of 2020?”