Vox Populi:

Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin approached several police officers who were holding a student down on the ground on Thursday and demanded an explanation—but by the end of the day videos of her own arrest became some of the most widely circulated images of the rapidly spreading anti-war movement on college campuses across the U.S.

As she knelt down to ask the university officers, “What are you doing?” another law enforcement agent grabbed her arm and pushed her away before repeatedly ordering her to “get on the ground.”

“Stop it!” Fohlin yelled before the officer pushed her to the ground and called for more police to help subdue her.

Fohlin then screamed, “Oh my God!” as the police pushed her down and told the police that she was a professor at the university as they held her on the ground.

Fohlin’s arrest—after which she was detained for 11 hours and then charged with “battery of a police officer”—came a week after Columbia University suspended more than 100 students for setting up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed by the U.S.-backed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since October, and allowed police to arrest them. The mass arrests only served to galvanize students and faculty at Columbia and at dozens of other schools, with more than 400 peoplebeing detained so far. 

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