For the past few days, pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests have been going on in the universities of the United States. Anti-Israel protests are now at a peak in various higher education institutions in the country, including in the state of Georgia. Students have pitched tents on their respective campuses to protest peacefully on behalf of the oppressed people of Palestine. But the police is stopping their protest. More than 550 students have been arrested so far.
The students demand that companies investing in Israel and fueling the Gaza war be shut down. The protesters say they are willing to risk arrest but will not stop until their demands are met.
According to various news agencies, about 550 arrests were made at major US universities last week. Massive anti-Israel protests are taking place on the campuses of Harvard, Columbia, Yale, UC Berkeley and other US universities.
University authorities say the protests are often unsanctioned and police are called in to quell them. As a result, law enforcement at the direction of university administrators used Tasers and tear gas against student protesters at Emory University in Atlanta. Activists say officers dressed in riot gear and on horseback have disrupted protests at the University of Texas.
Protests took place Thursday at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. That day, police raided and arrested dozens of protesters. Even a female professor was forced to the ground and handcuffed.
American broadcaster CNN has aired a video related to this. The video has already gone viral. In the video, Emory University economics professor Caroline Follin was approached by a white police officer as she spoke about students being arrested by the police and was tackled to the ground in the blink of an eye.
The video also shows that at one point, another police officer arrives and grabs Prof. Folin, pulls out his hand from under his chest, cuffs both hands and handcuffs him.
Video shared by CNN shows students and others protesting against Israel by setting up tents on Amory University's Atlanta campus early Thursday morning. At that time the police entered there and assaulted the students. After some of the protestors were arrested, everyone shouted together.
At one point, as the police were handcuffing Follin to the ground, a group of protesters surrounded them and started abusing the police. A protester said to the police, you are Hitler! You crazy dogs! You are fascist! You have no shame.
As he told the policemen to 'leave' the student, another police officer came from the side and pulled him to the ground with a lanyard. These two police officers tied Professor Fallin's hands behind his back. At that time Fallin kept saying, 'I am a professor.'
Incidentally, this pro-Palestinian protest spread across the United States first started at Columbia University, and it is still the center of this student protest movement. Police arrested more than 200 protesting students from universities in Los Angeles, Boston and Austin, Texas, between Wednesday and Thursday morning. On Thursday, more than two thousand students gathered in these universities and started protesting again.
