Campuses of a number of US Universities have been witnessing huge protests with the scholars looking for a ceasefire in Israel’s struggle with Hamas. Police have arrested over 550 protesters and a few universities are witnessing violent clashes between cops and the activists.
Law enforcement officers on the behest of school directors have deployed tasers and tear fuel towards college students protesters at Atlanta’s Emory University, though the protests have been largely peaceable, say activists and media personnel current on the spot.
Emil’ Keme, professor of English and Indigenous research, on the University mentioned that the scene reminded him of the civil struggle in Guatemala as an adolescent.
“Police immediately began to force people to move. I felt like I was in a war zone, with all the police and their weapons, the rubber bullets. We were pushed away,” Mr Keme informed the Guardian describing what occurred as quickly as cops entered the Emory campus.
“Police took the student next to me, pushed an older lady nearby and then pushed me.”
Student protesters say they’re expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the place the demise toll has topped 34,305, in response to the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry. They need universities to chop their investments in all the things tied to Israel and weapons that gas the struggle in Gaza. That means funds run by BlackRock, Google in addition to Amazon’s cloud service, Lockheed Martin and even Airbnb.
Video circulated extensively on social media reveals two ladies who recognized themselves as professors being detained, with one among them slammed to the bottom by one officer as a second officer then pushes her chest and face onto a concrete sidewalk.
FULL VIDEO OF ELDERLY AMERICAN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR CAROLINE FOHLIN BEING ASSAULTED BY POLICE
She is an over 65 12 months outdated American girl.
Americans attacked for Israel.
What if this was your mom/grandmother? pic.twitter.com/ne7uDsPGIX
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) April 26, 2024
🚨#BREAKING: Chaos has Unleashed at Emory University as Georgia Police Deploy Tasers, Rubber Bullets, and Tear Gas Against Protesters⁰⁰📌#Atlanta | #Georgia ⁰
Moments in the past at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, lots of of scholars, pro-Palestine protesters, and different… pic.twitter.com/LEwwGuKBEn— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 25, 2024
Atlanta police and Georgia troopers are main a joint operation inside the campus to dismantle the tents and camps the activists have arrange on the faculty’s quadrangle. Within minutes of the authorities coming into the campus, 28 folks, 20 of whom had been “Emory community members”, had been arrested, the institute mentioned in a press release.
The faculty president mentioned that the movies of police clashing with the scholars “are shocking” and that he’s “horrified horrified that members of our community had to experience and witness such interactions.”
The college’s response was seemingly the quickest present of police power in response to a divestment protest among the many dozens nationwide which have occurred in latest weeks. It was additionally most likely the one one the place pepper balls, stun weapons and rubber bullets had been used.