Emory University protest descends into chaos as Georgia cops ‘spray tear gas’, fire rubber bullets and arrest dozens of students
A protest at Emory University has descended into chaos as Georgia police officers fired rubber bullets and tasers at anti-Israel activists.
In this, the latest explosive example of unrest on American college campuses, students and faculty members were arrested as videos showed Atlanta Police Officers and Georgia State Troopers wrestling them on the ground. A demonstrator was also seen being tasered by an officer as he lay in the grass.
Another protest broke out at Northeastern University’s Centennial Common as more than 100 pro-Palestine protestors gathered in tents with University and Boston Police standing by.
Protests erupted in the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, and the ongoing retaliatory attacks on Gaza that followed. The chaotic demonstrations intensified in recent days, as school administrators call in police forces to remove encampments.
Pro-Palestine protests remain ongoing at Columbia, Harvard, NYU, USC, the University of Texas, UC Berkley and Brown.
Video showed a line of demonstrators staring down officers as they chanted: ‘Free, free Palestine!’ at Northeastern.
Video captured multiple students being approached by officers as they ‘sprayed tear gas’ according to a witness, and fired rubber bullets at them, which can be heard ringing out on video.
Other clips showed cops pin protestors to the ground as they restrained their hands behind their backs.
One female protestor was seen being carried away by multiple officers as she screamed and sang.
Students occupied the lawn at the school’s quad and set up a Gaza solidarity encampment.
Protestors said that they were ‘demanding total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities,’ according to Fox 5.
Freedom of speech and lawful protesting is a right in America. Hate speech inciting violence such as murder and genocide etc. let alone unlawful protests are not. Period. Full stop. If authorities want to put an end to this they can, easily. But first of all a solution has to be the desired outcome. Biden issued an EO erasing America’s entire Immigration Law pertaining to the foreigners still outside the border. Then he can do exactly the same for foreigners still inside the border.