(25 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++PROFANITIES DELETED++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 25 April 2024
1. Police detaining protesters on Emory University’s campus
2. Various of protesters on Emory University Campus set up in a perimeter with police presence
STORYLINE:
Atlanta police and Georgia state troopers dismantled a camp on Emory University’s quadrangle Thursday morning, with Associated Press journalists counting at least 17 people detained.
University police had ordered several dozen demonstrators who set up tents on the campus early Thursday morning to leave, according to Emory spokeswoman Laura Diamond.
She said in an email to The Associated Press that the group “trespassed” onto the private school.
“These individuals are not members of our community,” Diamond said. “They are activists attempting to disrupt our university as our students finish classes and prepare for finals.”
A long line of officers surrounded the encampment of about three dozen tents after 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, as protesters chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and opposing a public safety training center being built in Atlanta.
The two movements are closely entwined in Atlanta, where there has been years of “Stop Cop City” activism that has included a fringe of anarchist attacks on property and the killing by state troopers of a protester who was occupying the site.
When officers in tactical gear began detaining people, some submitted, but others physically pushed back.
Those who were detained were handcuffed with zip ties and loaded into a police transport van.
Video shows officers at least once used an electrical stun gun on a protester who was handcuffed on the ground.
It was unclear if the people detained were Emory students or faculty.
In an online announcement, protesters described themselves as community members and students of multiple Atlanta-area universities.
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