Video clip of some professor at Emory U in Atlanta arrested. She said she was not a protester.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrestsFohlin's arrest—after which she was detained for 11 hours and then charged with "battery of a police officer"—came a week after Columbia University suspended more than 100 students for setting up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed by the U.S.-backed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since October, and allowed police to arrest them. The mass arrests only served to galvanize students and faculty at Columbia and at dozens of other schools, with more than 400 peoplebeing detained so far.
The American Association of University Professors called the arrest "antithetical to the mission of higher education."
"Our institutions exist to foster robust exchanges of ideas and open dialogue in service of knowledge and understanding," said the group. "Sometimes that includes open dissent. Peaceful campus protests should never be met with violence."
Foreign policy expert Trita Parsi suggested that Fohlin's arrest was among the on-campus incidents that have strained the Democratic Party's argument that "democracy is on the ballot in November."
"To sustain this level of blind support for Israel, the U.S. must erode its own democracy. And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now," said Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, sharing a video of police tasing an Emory student who was already being held down on the ground.
https://www.ajc.com/news/attorney-says-economics-professor-arrested-during-emory-protest-was-not-a-protester/U3HLXWUSIBHQDDNHHVIIFH6OPE/Attorney says economics professor arrested during Emory protest ‘was not a protester’By Michael E. Kanell
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Caroline Fohlin, an economics professor arrested Thursday at an Emory demonstration, issued a statement late Friday through her attorney rejecting the charges against her.
The arrest was misguided, said Gregory Clement, her lawyer.
https://twitter.com/iskandrah/status/1783543580058927421Prof enters at 1:05 minute mark wearing white. Not a good look. Thrown to the ground.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/25/emory-university-pro-palestinian-protest-police-digvid.cnn