Who Is Caroline Fohlin? Video Shows Police Knocking Down Emory University Economics Professor

Emory University Economics professor Caroline Fohlin was detained following a police crackdown on pro-Palestine protestors at the Decatur, Georgia-based university on Thursday (April 25). As has been the case in other universities in US, students at Emory formed encampments, with tents and other protest paraphernalia, which led to a crackdown by Emory Police Department.

Caroline Fohlin is a professor at the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University since 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile. Notably, she is an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley, where protests have been continuing in spite of the arrest of 93 protestors Wednesday.

A video has gone viral on social media which shows the moment Fohlin was detained. The video seemingly shows Fohlin being knocked to the ground by a police deputy and her glasses fall off as her head strikes the concrete. CNN confirmed that Fohlin was detained by Emory Police, along with several other protestors, who the Emory University administration branded "trespassers."

Here's the video:

Fohlin's LinkedIn profile says that she did BA in Mathematics and Quantitative Economics from Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. After that, Fohlin did PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 1994. Before Emory, Fohlin taught at John Hopkins University and California Institute of Technology.

Emory administration said in a statement that Emory Police Department was assisted by Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol. The crackdown was allegedly the most violent so far, as tear gas and rubber bullets were used on protestors for the first time since protests started at Columbia University on April 17. With Emory, protests have now spread to at least 17 universities.

"Several dozen protesters trespassed into Emory University’s campus early Thursday morning and set up tents on the Quad. These individuals are not members of our community. They are activists attempting to disrupt our university as our students finish classes and prepare for finals," Emory University said in the statement, adding, "Emory does not tolerate vandalism or other criminal activity on campus."

The protestors at Emory said in a post on Instagram that they want "total divestment from Israeli apartheid and cop city," and added that the encampment is "open to everyone."

'Cop City' is the nickname given to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, a police and fire department training campus near Atlanta currently under construction. The center, which is expected to cost around $90 million, is being built on an 85-acre plot of land.