Like the other pro-Hamas protests taking place on college campuses across the country, the one at Emory University has also seen its fair share of Useful Idiots, as evidenced by some clips and photos shared by a local reporter the day after things got quite lively at the Atlanta college.
EMORY PROTEST: A large crowd has assembled at Emory a day after 28 arrests were made at the campus during a Pro-Palestine protest. I spoke with Abu Shawarab who spoke to those gathered on the campus, he’s wearing Emory University scrubs and is a resident physician. @FOX5Atlanta pic.twitter.com/LxUFdurEtE
— Billy Heath III (@BillyHeathFOX5) April 26, 2024
And by “quite lively,” I’m referring to all the arrests that were made, with two professors reportedly being among them, in what was a wild scene.
One of them was economics professor Caroline Fohlin, who has become a cause célèbre among the woke left for an incident that happened Thursday–in which a police officer maneuvered her to the ground and arrested her as another came in to help.
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Video from the scene taken by CNN shows what led to the arrest. In it, we see what presumably is a student protester being detained by the state patrol on the ground. Fohlin repeatedly questions the detainment, and then appears to reach towards the patrolmen in an apparent attempt to stop them. It was when that happened that a police officer sprung into action and tried to arrest her. Things got especially tense when she resisted arrest.
At one point as she was taken down, she yelled out “I’m a professor!” which did not faze the officers one bit. Her attempt to apologize for interceding, in hopes they’d remove the cuffs, also didn’t work.
Watch:
Full video shows the chaotic arrest of Emory Professor Caroline Fohlin as she resisted as officers tried to arrest her while shouting “I’m a professor. I’m a professor of Economics.” pic.twitter.com/nzV8nFNi6q
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 26, 2024
The left and right alike are sharing the below-shortened clip for different reasons–the left so they can take what happened to her out of context, and the right in order to mock her for thinking being a professor should get her off the hook:
Can’t stop watching this harridan scream repeatedly “I’m a professor. I’m a professor.” Inject it directly into my veins. pic.twitter.com/7ok9wMu3lp
— Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 (@ICUStat) April 26, 2024
The spin from the left is that she was merely “expressing concern.” But the full video, as noted above, shows she went a bit further than that:
Caroline Fohlin, the Emory professor of economics seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester on campus, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with… Battery Against Police Officer https://t.co/ND5GibfHoW pic.twitter.com/4VmEJGn2Xb
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) April 26, 2024
Should she have gotten arrested? And if you think she should have been arrested, should she have been taken down to the ground? This seems like a pretty clear-cut case of “FAFO” to me, but I report, you decide…
Editor’s note: This piece has been updated for clarity. It was a police officer, not a member of the state patrol, who confronted and arrested the professor.
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