University presidents are calling the cops on pro-Gaza protesters, and students, journalists, and professors are paying the price.
A police officer detains a protester on the campus of Emory Univeristy during an pro-Palestinian demonstration, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Atlanta.to Austin, and Los Angeles to Atlanta, university presidents have summoned campus police, city riot cops, and even state troopers to answer the civil disobedience of students who have set up campus tent encampments to
The footage shows that the protester was pinned to the ground by a scrum of cops, and that a Georgia trooper, wearing a light blue shirt, used his knee to force the young man’s head into the concrete walkway — darkly reminiscent of the maneuver that killed Floyd. Per their use of force, Emory university police have a “duty to intervene” against incidents of “excessive force.” But this violent arrest was proceeding apace when an Emory economics professor, Caroline Fohlin, came upon the scene.
When Fohlin hits the ground, her red glasses flying, the campus officer calls for backup, and a second policeman in a different uniform then jumps on her back, slamming her head into the sidewalk. Fohlin was booked that morning and jailed for nearly 12 hours — after being arrested by her own university. Her alleged crimes? “Disorderly conduct” and “battery” against a police officer.
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