( Post Millennial )
An economics professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia was forcibly detained on Thursday after confronting officers about the arrest of an anti-Israel protester.
Caroline Fohlin, a 57-year-old who stands 5 foot 3 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds, was charged with disorderly conduct and simple battery against a police officer. She was held for over 10 hours before being released.
Over the past week and a half, college campuses across the country have seen many by anti-Israel demonstrations with students and other activists getting arrested over refusing to leave encampments set up for Gaza.
Footage of the incident showed Fohlin walking towards the scene of a protester being arrested. "What are you doing?" she shouted. "What the f*ck are you doing?"
After bending down closer to the protester being arrested, another officer confronted her, screaming, "Get on the grass!"
When she refused, he grabbed her arms and repeated his demands.
"Let go of me!" Fohlin said before being thrown to the ground as she resisted the officer from detaining her.
"My head!" she shouted. "You just hit my head on the concrete!"
As the officers placed the zip tie handcuffs around her wrists, Fohlin informed them that she is a professor at the university.
"I reacted impulsively," she said. "I apologize. Please remove the handcuffs" She was taken off campus afterwards.
According to jail records, Fohlin was booked by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office at 10:24am and released at 8:47pm.
Fohlin was not the only professor to be detained by police. Noëlle McAfee, who chairs the university's philosophy department, was also hauled away by a masked officer.