An Atlanta gym owner is searing the internet with his policy of “no cops” in his gym. The EAV Barbell Club gym is owned by Jim Chambers, as reported by Atlanta station 11 Alive. The gym location is also available, through the owner, as a meeting space for local activists. Local Atlanta media outlets were sent a picture of a sign on the door of the gym stating the “no cops” policy.

11 Alive sent a reporter to interview the gym owner, Mr. Chambers:

1Alive’s Faith Abubey talked to the gym’s owner, who is not making any apologies for putting up the sign.

“It was really just that the vulgarity in that sign, and that seems to bring it out for people,” said Jim Chambers, owner of the EAV Barbell Club on Flat Shoals Avenue in the city’s East Atlanta Village neighborhood.
EAV Barbell Club’s ‘No Cop’ policy is no longer plastered on the front door.

“I didn’t want the other folks there to take the heat that I’m willing to take,” Chambers said.
Despite the backlash, Chambers says he still stands by the message it conveyed.

“We’ve had an explicitly stated ‘No Cop’ policy since we opened, and we also don’t open membership to active members of the military,” he said.

What a brave, brave man, Mr. Chambers is. (Please read the preceding sentence with dripping sarcasm.) The man eats breaths, sleeps and owns a gym under the assurances of The Constitution which are protected by cops and the military.

Salute!

Also from the 11 Alive reportage: