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The bulk of the $110 million behind Cop City is being funded by the Atlanta Police Foundation and its corporate donors who constitute the core network of Atlanta’s power elite. These backers of Cop City include major corporations across multiple sectors headquartered in Atlanta, such as the Georgia Power Foundation, Home Depot, Bank of America, Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, and Cox Foundation, Cox Enterprises, a massive conglomerate that owns the city’s main newspaper.