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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta, Maya Yang in New York and Erum Salam in Princeton

Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas at university protest in Georgia

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Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the war in Gaza at Emory University in Georgia on Thursday. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

Police have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.

On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to Israel, as well Atlanta’s Cop City, a police and fire department training center that is being constructed on a 171-acre plot in a forest south-east of Atlanta.

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