Watch: Emory University Professor protesting against Israel knocked down, handcuffed

In a brutal crackdown on faculties, the US Police Thursday used excessive force while trying to disperse protesters at a protest against Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza at Emory University in Atlanta.

Friday April 26, 2024 5:49 PM, ummid.com News Network

Atlanta: In a brutal crackdown on faculties, the US Police Thursday used excessive force while trying to disperse protesters at a protest against Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza at Emory University in Atlanta.

Caroline Fohlin, a highly respected professor, was knocked to the ground by a police officer, while another held her down as they handcuffed her with zip-ties, ignoring her repeated calls 'I am a professor, I am a professor'.

The latest use of violence against the university professor came as protests against the murderous Israeli war in Gaza continue unabated at the campuses of major universities in the United States, including Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale, and have intensified after some 108 students were arrested at New York's Columbia University last week.

'Act of Terrorism'

The Georgia State Police later arrested Economics Professor Caroline Fohlin along with 28 others. The protest organisers have called the police brutality an "act of terrorism".

In a video shared by CNN and now viral on social media, Fohlin is seen trying to confront police officers attempting to arrest a protester while he is lying on the ground.

When she asks, "What are you doing?" another police officer comes, grabs both her hands and tries to push her away.

This isn’t CHINA. This is AMERICA

Emory Professor, Caroline Fohlin is violently arrested by police at her workplace…

This is Fascism, this is in violation of her 1st Amendment pic.twitter.com/Jv4LtQ3t88
— Pelham (@Resist_05) April 26, 2024

As Fohlin tries to protect her from the officer's excessive use of force, he shouts and asks her to "get on the ground".

Before she can react, he knocks her to the ground, and forces her hands behind her back. A second officer is also seen, putting weight on her back to prevent her from getting up.

At one point in the same video, the second officer is seen kneeling on the professor’s back while handcuffing her with zip-ties.

Arrest of another professor

Georgia Police Thursday also arrested Noelle McAfee, Chair of the university's Philosophy Department. A video of her detention is also doing the rounds on different social media platforms.

The video shows her being taken away by an Atlanta Police officer, while she tells the person filming the video to "call the philosophy department officer and tell them of my arrest".

The local police also arrested Fox 7 photographer who was trying to capture the brutal police action against the faculties and students.

"I was just covering things and they were pushing me. I told them I am from the press. I was hitting nobody”, Carlos, the photographer said.

The pro-Palestine and anti-war protest against the Israeli barbarism in Gaza Monday snowballed and spread to Harvard, Yale, MIT and other elite universities of the United States after use of force against students in Columbia University.

In addition to the demonstrations at the Ivy League schools, pro-Palestinian encampments have sprouted up on other campuses, including the University of Michigan, Yale University, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), news agency AP said.

Israel bombs Rafah

Meanwhile, the latest updates from Gaza revealed continuous Israeli shelling on Rafah amid the speculations of ground offensive into the only safe zone for the Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

According to Al Jazeera, the eastern part of Rafah is under constant artillery shelling as a senior Israeli official says the military is “moving ahead” with its planned ground invasion, ignoring a growing chorus of international warnings to call it off.

At least 34,356 Palestinians have been killed and 77,368 wounded - majority of them women and children, in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023.

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