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Arrested Emory U. Prof. No Victim Despite Leftist Outrage, Admitted She Hit Cop While He Was Subduing Another Rioter

Arrested Emory U. Prof. No Victim Despite Leftist Outrage, Admitted She Hit Cop While He Was Subduing Another Rioter

“I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention. And they grabbed me, threw me to the ground and arrested me.”
Posted by Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 06:30pm
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In any movement started by the radical left, a key component to fanning the flames and keeping the masses fired up is to turn someone involved in it into a symbol, someone who will serve as an example of why they must keep up the fight and see the “mission” through.

We saw it, for instance, with the Occupy Wall Street protests where people in wheelchairs were purposely put in the front rows of protest lines.

The latest incarnation of OWS, the anti-Israel demonstrations, is very similar in nature, as Professor Jacobson pointed out in a recent Fox News interview.

And during one such demonstration that took place this week in Georgia, the anti-Israel left found their next symbol, an economics professor from Emory University whose Thursday arrest was caught on tape by CNN, something that instantly turned her into a progressive icon among anti-Israel activists and their coddlers in higher education.

In a shortened video clip shared to the Twitter machine and which has been viewed nearly eight million times as of this writing, we see Professor Caroline Fohlin telling a police officer to “stop it” in the middle of a campus protest as the officer tells her to “get down” as he is about to arrest her. She continues to refuse to get on the ground, so he maneuvers her there himself, and soon after is assisted by another officer while Fohlin claims her head hit the concrete.

During her arrest, Fohlin is heard yelling “I’m a professor!”

Watch:

Fohlin was immediately painted as a selfless heroine who was just doing what any professor would do to “protect their students,” and others in higher ed rushed to her defense:

“Peace activists” also weighed in:

Comments to tweets and RTs on her Twitter timeline contained comments from people who were expressing support and solidarity with her.

The problem here is that in the longer CNN video clip, Fohlin is seen interfering in the arrest of someone who is presumably a student. Watch as she screams for a few moments at officers before walking over to one and leaning right behind him just inches away from his gun, seeming to reach out with her left hand:

Here’s a screengrab of the moment:

In another clip, Fohlin is shown admitting she “impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention”:

“I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention. And they grabbed me, threw me to the ground and arrested me.”

That is a no-no, and you can best believe in the vast majority of instances if you do something like that you will be descended upon by police in record time, as happened in the clip. She’s fortunate she wasn’t tackled immediately.

Incredibly, once the full CNN clip (which did not contain the admission) started making the rounds, she was still portrayed as a victim who did nothing to deserve the response she got, with her defenders stating that she was simply “expressing concern” when confronted by the officer:

Needless to say, hitting an officer “on the head very lightly to get his attention” is not merely “expressing concern” over the situation. It’s not clear whether any of those rushing to the defense of the professor have seen her admission, but rest assured it is unlikely any tweets will be deleted because narratives and whatnot.

It’s hard to pinpoint what’s more maddening here: Fohlin yelling “I’m a professor!” as if that’s supposed to let someone off the hook for behaving badly, or the number of people swarming in to defend her by gaslighting their followers on what led to the arrest.

The consensus on Twitter from conservatives was that the “I’m a professor” moment was the worst – and most amusing:

That said, $10 says she becomes an MSNBC contributor. Maybe even gets a speaking invitation to the DNC.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —

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ThePrimordialOrderedPair | April 27, 2024 at 6:57 pm

“I AM A PROFESSOR!!!”

LOL. Reminds me of … “That’s DOCTOR Amy Bishop, you bastard!!” At least, they got this one before she shot a bunch of people.

    Dimsdale in reply to ThePrimordialOrderedPair. | April 28, 2024 at 12:58 pm

    No, you are a perp and a tool of the Hamasholes. You admitted to striking a police officer in the commission of his duty, then resisted arrest while your kaffiya diapered cohorts looked on and taped your shame.

    I loved the image of her Schumer-like glasses on the ground alongside her.

      Virginia42 in reply to Dimsdale. | May 2, 2024 at 9:13 am

      People may not know it, but there are a lot of stupid “professors” out there. Where do they think this problem came from? Hint: Look at the syllabi of some of these people. It was bad 30 years ago and it’s a lot worse now.

    NGAREADER in reply to ThePrimordialOrderedPair. | April 29, 2024 at 10:15 am

    She’s a product of poor parenting, like many of these fools.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair | April 27, 2024 at 7:04 pm

Wasim Ahmad
@PicGuide

As professors, one of the unwritten parts of the job is to protect our students in any way we can.

Uh … that’s not the job of a college professor. That’s the job of a kindergarten teacher. A professor’s job is just to impart knowledge and, more importantly, advance the state of their field, whether that is through research or teaching and attracting students to the field. But it is NOT to “protect our(?) students”. That is elementary school stuff, not higher education.

CommoChief | April 27, 2024 at 7:06 pm

It seems to me that many of these people are trying to ‘be a part of history’; as if supporting the terrorists of Hamas is somehow on par with Civil Rights protests of the segregation/Jim Crow era. This particular woman is 65 so born in ’59 and was too young to participate as a ‘freedom rider’. I suppose she could have joined anti Vietnam War protests as a grade school/middle school child but it was over by the time she hit HS.

This Karen got exactly want she deserved. She interfered in an arrest, approaching, distracting and making physical contact with LEO as they attempted to restrain and place them into handcuffs. Always a very bad idea to do that and frankly she got off light; she refused to obey the lawful command to go to the ground and that LEO would have been, under all the circumstances, justified in using a taser. At her age, maybe bad health, heart issues (?) a taser could have shut down a pacemaker so LEU used very light sweep to bring her to the ground. She wasn’t thrown, she was maneuvered by causing her to lose balance into a controlled fall at the LEO feet who rolls her over and cuffs her. That actually looked like maybe a generous 1/3 speed to me v what would be used in live combative training or a dojo.

    Sanddog in reply to CommoChief. | April 27, 2024 at 7:40 pm

    There are a lot of leftists who are extremely bitter and angry that they missed they heyday of the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam protests. They’ve been trying to recreate that era by force using all manner of bullshit causes. Their students have the attention span of fleas so they can’t grasp one movement and stick with it.

    MajorWood in reply to CommoChief. | April 27, 2024 at 11:20 pm

    Portland is full of old hippies whose life peaked at an antiwar rally in DC in 1970. They, like all junkies, have been on a quest to capture that magical high once again. This one probably heard about it from an older sibling and has had chronic FOMO since. You can tell where they live by the constant rotation of the yard placard du jour. Every pic in the paper would have the same 50 people. They did a pollution rally at a major intersection and a bunch of good old boys did a rolling coal express to show their support.

    artichoke in reply to CommoChief. | May 2, 2024 at 4:50 pm

    They think they can win. They are ruthless and don’t believe in compromise. This is the Islamic way, and it informs the way of the left. It’s hard to believe because we’re not like that, but they’re different.

    BierceAmbrose in reply to CommoChief. | May 4, 2024 at 6:32 pm

    “It seems to me that many of these people are trying to ‘be a part of history’…”

    Yep. And sadly this childish, performative stuff is the best they can do.

    BierceAmbrose in reply to CommoChief. | May 4, 2024 at 6:33 pm

    “That actually looked like maybe a generous 1/3 speed to me v what would be used in live combative training or a dojo.”

    Angle and range of the movement too.

James Nault | April 27, 2024 at 7:40 pm

Lock her up

    amwick in reply to James Nault. | April 27, 2024 at 7:49 pm

    She came within inches of his pistol… that is a huge issue with LEOs… If she had been nutter she could have grabbed it..
    That and she “tapped” him..
    No sympathy.

      diver64 in reply to amwick. | April 28, 2024 at 6:32 am

      Point taken but I doubt this midwit is smart enough to know how a retention holster works.

      artichoke in reply to amwick. | May 2, 2024 at 4:52 pm

      We don’t know for sure what she would have done if she had gotten close enough to that pistol. Of course once she’s caught, like any of them, she has excuses at the ready, and the flow of excuses and bs started.

      These people are so slimy, they’ll make a string of excuses and manipulations and expect it will have no negative consequence for them. May their consequences increase because of their verbal bullshit.

thad_the_man | April 27, 2024 at 7:53 pm

You had to look hard to find these trweets. Most of the trweets I’ve seen have treated her much more negatively.

    Valerie in reply to thad_the_man. | April 27, 2024 at 8:10 pm

    The tweets you see are influenced by who you follow. I don’t follow freaks like Medea Benjamin. I do follow medical researchers. Just at a guess, I would suggest that you might have seen the CNN video clip in your feed, but not the latest COVID journal articles out of Japan.

Valerie | April 27, 2024 at 8:01 pm

“I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention. And they grabbed me, threw me to the ground and arrested me.”

This person lacks the self control and presence of mind that is rightfully expected of any kind of teacher. She should be fired as lacking suitable adult temperament.

    diver64 in reply to Valerie. | April 28, 2024 at 6:35 am

    That made me laugh. A supposedly smart university professor does not know that the first rule of dealing with law enforcement after arrest is to shut the **** up. She admitted to her crime so the prosecution is going to have an easy time with this one. However, she will get probation and street cred for standing up to The Man.

      henrybowman in reply to diver64. | April 28, 2024 at 3:13 pm

      Worse than that.
      “I’m a professor” encounters a cop effecting an arrest — an activity pretty much anyone over the age of five would recognize immediately — and her first impulse is to demand, “What are you doing?”
      I guess she got her answer. Even a professor can learn something new every day.

    artichoke in reply to Valerie. | May 2, 2024 at 4:54 pm

    She impulsively hit someone on the head? She needs to be locked up for the protection of her students. Or does she only impulsively hit conservatives, or cops, or anyone who is not complying with her wishes on the head?

    How many other times has she impulsively hit someone on the head?

    BierceAmbrose in reply to Valerie. | May 4, 2024 at 6:39 pm

    “I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention.”

    They think other people shouldn’t have their own agency, because they can’t handle their own agency. I suppose she’s an advocate for “common sense arm control” — clearly, she’s not up to managing the end of her own arms responsibly.

steves59 | April 27, 2024 at 8:11 pm

“I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention.”

This will inevitably lead to “I impulsively shot him in the head very lightly to get his attention.”

George_Kaplan | April 27, 2024 at 9:56 pm

Classic entitled Leftist – you can’t touch me, I’m an (Insert Privilege GroupTitle).

Why is it the Left believe that failure to grant them privileged status makes them victims?

Why are they so anti-equality?

Tiki | April 27, 2024 at 9:56 pm

Another insane professor
@proteinwisdom Jeff Goldstein.

The whole affair is still ongoing in 2024.

December 19th, 2019 – Deborah Ellen Frisch was taken into custody this afternoon, by the San Diego Police Department, at her apartment. She is currently housed in the San Diego County Jail, and will be returned to Weld County, Colorado for sentencing on her violations of the terms of her felony parole. She faces 6 to 24 years in prison for those violations, and may face additional felony charges for her actions while she was out on parole.

There will be no delay for extradition, as she signed an extradition waiver as a condition of her parole. Nor will there be a trial prior to her sentencing, as she’s already been convicted of the crimes for which she faces sentencing.

    diver64 in reply to Tiki. | April 28, 2024 at 6:56 am

    I linked through to the timeline and started reading about ole’ Deb. A more obvious case of mental illness I’ve not read in a long time. I assume you posted about her because she is another Prof of Economics?

      artichoke in reply to diver64. | May 2, 2024 at 5:08 pm

      She has some writing skill. Her insults are creative, she knows how to turn a phrase. Those traits may well be linked to mental illness, the same way mathematical skill is linked to being on the spectrum.

    Dimsdale in reply to Tiki. | April 28, 2024 at 1:04 pm

    Be sure to revoke her tenure, if she has it.

    Azathoth in reply to Tiki. | April 29, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I didn’t know protein wisdom was back.

    Excellent.

inspectorudy | April 27, 2024 at 9:57 pm

From the comments of the other professors, it is obvious why our colleges are so screwed up! Not one understood what was happening and never thought they were breaking the law.

Tiki | April 27, 2024 at 10:01 pm

East Bay Professor Charged With Assault For Using U-Shaped Bike Lock as Weapon.

Eric Clanton, who taught philosophy at Pleasant Hill-based Diablo Valley College, hit three victims’ heads amid the April 15 melee at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.

The 28-year-old Oakland resident’s violent actions left the victims with “significant injuries.”

schmuul | April 27, 2024 at 11:22 pm

And she’s a professor, exactly the problem right there ; what a real role model.

CincyJan | April 28, 2024 at 4:37 am

Gee, even professors have to obey the law. That one caught them by surprise! And I think her role as an authority figure carries more responsibility than others, therefore she’d get a longer sentence in my court.

kjon | April 28, 2024 at 7:38 am

The repeated “Rabid Dogs” words being repeatedly uttered constitutes fighting words which endanger the police. The police should have used their batons to restore order and protect themselves. Another example of leftists using their professor status to avoid responsibility for their actions.

geronl | April 28, 2024 at 8:13 am

Watch how easily the left slides into antisemitism. It is natural for them. They are the true heirs of the NAZI’s.

    CommoChief in reply to geronl. | April 28, 2024 at 10:35 am

    Well …yeah. The Nazis were in favor of National Socialism, so much so the name stuck. Getting leftist to understand that those who advocate for National Socialism alongside an insistence that Govt/Society must order itself into separate groups based on immutable characteristics which are then elevated above individual action, merit as the basis for their place in society are reading from the Nazi hymnal should not be as difficult as it is.

    Dimsdale in reply to geronl. | April 28, 2024 at 1:06 pm

    More of a “burst free” situation than “slide into.”

    They were in it with both feet.

destroycommunism | April 28, 2024 at 11:31 am

b/c the visuals of using fire hoses on these revolutionists will bring the civil rights LEGIT actions into pr play

these communist nazzzi monsters are basically allowed to burn down another police station….until they are not allowed that “privilege”

destroycommunism | April 28, 2024 at 11:37 am

they let ( and still do) the blmplo army do as they please and dei as the rule of law ….america is kaput

until we drop those “EXTRA” LAWS which they wont do aka “civil rights” FISA homeland “security” etc etc

which only embolden the Leftists

There were alreay laws on the book to investigate crimes >>terrrrrorrism etc

but those gop nuts along with their lefty dem buddies had to “do something”

to show they were ontop of it when in fact they helped cause the suffering by allowing governmental power over the people

healthguyfsu | April 28, 2024 at 7:46 pm

She should know better. She wouldn’t be allowed to hit a student “lightly on the head from behind” to get their attention. Oh wait, she’s black, maybe she would*

*as long as the student was a SWM.

drsamherman | May 1, 2024 at 11:59 am

So she was faculty. Big deal! Doesn’t save you from consequences of bad choices. If anything, it magnifies those consequences, especially for clinical and adjunct faculty in medicine and most professional, non-tenure stream faculty as your contract probably won’t be renewed if you’re a troublemaker. Not to mention, she interfered in an arrest and struck a police officer. However lightly it was, and we weren’t there to know what the degree was, but she still struck him. That’s an automatic ticket to jail. Bye, Caroline. Enjoy your time in stir.

rochf | May 2, 2024 at 12:48 pm

Someone should tell her there’s no professor exception for breaking the law. Fire her and let her take a job in Iran–I hear they’re offering scholarships, so maybe they’re looking for professors as well.

Romey | May 3, 2024 at 11:12 am

Wow! It seems like over privileged students become over privileged “professors” . Whoda thunk it!?!

Think38 | May 3, 2024 at 4:24 pm

Professor doesn’t comprehend that she is being arrested. Arrest may include physical restraint, such as being handcuffed. That’s a normal procedure for someone who is not cooperative and resists arrest.

We see this in many other police-citizen incidents. The citizen thinks they have the right to disagree with the police officer, or may only be arrested or constrained when they consent or decide to be. That is not so. The police may be responsible when they improperly arrest you, but good luck resisting.

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