The City of Atlanta is leading an effort to try to keep kids out of trouble this summer by helping them find other ways to spend their time.
More than 700 young people on Friday, June 27, participated in the sixth annual @Promise Field Day — the first to be held at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
The 85-acre, multi-million-dollar facility opened in April, but not before becoming the site of scores of protests by activists who say it’ll lead to over-policing in the city. A demonstrator was killed protesting its construction more than two years ago.
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