She wasn’t the only professor detained by Atlanta police; CNN crews saw at least one other professor being arrested, Philosophy Department Chair Noelle McAfee. At least 28 people were arrested overall at the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, where police used rubber bullets to try to disperse the crowds. While the school tried to accuse protesters of trespassing and not being affiliated with the university, The Emory Wheel’s editor in chief, Madi Olivier, confirmed that 20 of the 28 people detained were indeed affiliated with the school.?? ATLANTA: Emory Economics Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of an anti-genocide student protester on campus and asked the police, "What are you doing?" An officer hurls her to the ground and handcuff her:pic.twitter.com/cLAkkKozjh
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He said: “They were pushing me, and they said that I hit an officer. I didn’t hit an officer.” He added that he was only covering the event and nothing like this had ever happened to him before. A journalist for the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE, Tony Plohetski, reposted the video online and wrote: “I can’t remember a journalist ever being arrested for doing his job in my 24 years of reporting in Austin.” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the protesters “belong in jail.” The arrests continue to pile up, with 108 protesters reportedly arrested at Emerson College in Boston on Thursday morning, nearly 60 arrested at the University of Texas in Austin, and 93 arrested at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The protests are part of a movement calling on universities to sever their financial tiers to Israel and divest from the companies they are affiliated with that they feel are supporting the genocidal campaign in Gaza. At least 34,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel. Although the protests have been largely peaceful, they have been addressed with a heavy hand from universities, many of which are claiming the issue is anti-Semitism. USC law professor Jody Armour said: “We have lots of Jewish, and Muslim, and Palestinian, and Catholic like I am, Protestants too, intergenerational, coming together. Everybody should hate anti-Semitism and fight anti-Semitism, but being opposed to Israel’s slaughter in Gaza that the UN has said may plausibly be genocide, does not mean that you’re anti-Semitic, and we need to stop allowing people to weaponize anti-Semitism against real, valid protests.” If anyone still had any doubts about how much influence Israeli interests have on the U.S., this should put them to rest. Sources for this article include: Mediaite.com Slate.comUS Police is aggressively cracking down against students and journalists at anti-genocide protests. Not only is the US Govt complicit in the Gaza genocide with arms and political support for Israel but now they want to silence the protests at US campuses. pic.twitter.com/AcSc3EBBlu
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) April 24, 2024
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