Arrests Get Violent as Cops Deploy Tasers and Tear Gas on Campus Protesters

Demonstrators at Emory University protesting in support of Palestinians and against a planned “Cop City” training center were subject to increasingly violent arrests on Thursday as Atlanta police attempted to shut down their protests.

Around 10:20 a.m., officers from the Emory Police Department, Atlanta Police Department, and state troopers used tear gas, tasers, and zip ties to disperse an encampment set up that morning on the university’s quad, Emory’s student-run newspaper The Emory Wheel reported.

One disturbing video from the event showed a trio of police officers tasing a protester, who was handcuffed and held down on the ground.

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