Pro-Palestine, 'Cop City' protests return to Emory, arrests made at UGA encampment

Over 100 people came out to the Emory University campus to protest the Israel-Hamas and the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center on Monday, April 29, 2024. The group also criticized the Emory administration's handling of an April 25 protest that led to multiple arrests. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Protests returned to Emory University’s campus on Monday afternoon, just hours after over a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.

Emory students, faculty members and others gathered on campus to speak out against the Israel-Hamas war and the controversial public safety training center in Atlanta that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.”

Over 100 people came out to the Emory University campus to protest the Israel-Hamas war and the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center on Monday, April 29, 2024. The group also criticized the Emory administration’s handling of an April 25 protest that led to multiple arrests. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Faculty members from Emory’s Candler School of Theology criticized the administration’s and law enforcement’s response to an April 25 protest on campus that led to multiple arrests. Protesters had set up an encampment on Emory’s quad.