Students at the Atlanta University Center are calling for answers after videos circulated online this week of a student being arrested in class at Clark Atlanta University.
According to the posts, the student was arrested by police for not having their student ID card.
A student with the handle @thebrighteststarfire wrote on Feb. 4:
“On Black History Month at my Historically Black College… a fellow classmate was arrested in class for not having her #cau ID (her paw card) GO PANTHERS!
let’s be serious, given the societal & cultural landscape this is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! & i do not feel safe on my campus. i do not trust that CAU PD has student’s best interest at heart.
this is the corporal meaning he is the supervising officer and this is how he conducts his self?
being aggressive, not offering any alternative solutions, not caring that my professor literally verified she was an active student, STILL ARRESTED MY CLASSMATE IN HANDCUFFS IN FRONT OF ALL MY COLLEAGUES!!!”
The post included video showing a uniformed officer, who identifies himself as Corporal Israel, standing outside the door as the instructor brings him a student’s backpack and confirms that the young woman is a student in his class.
Students in the comments are calling for the officer’s immediate termination.
This is a developing story.
