‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest
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‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest
A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and facultyinkl
Marv Clowder
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Don Ray
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •The administration invited an army, and they got a war zone.
The episode makes clear that a militarized police force is not capable of respecting civil and human rights.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Don Ray • • •Don Ray
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •#guatemala
It was a professor from Guatemala who said: “I felt like I was in a war zone.”
And he has a basis for comparison.
From the article;
From Guatemala, Keme came to the US as a teenager, escaping “a civil war against my people … involving the Guatemalan army, who received training from Israelis”.
He said: “Police immediately began to force people to move. I felt like I was in a war zone, with all the police and their weapons, the rubber bullets.”
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