A 65-Year-Old Professor Describes Being Manhandled By Cops At Campus Protest [Video]

Dartmouth College history professor Annelise Orleck went viral Thursday following her arrest the previous night for taking part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus. Video from New Hampshire television station WMUR showed police in riot gear pulling the 65-year-old Orleck away from the protest before one officer appears to push her to the ground.

“Are you kidding me?” a stunned demonstrator can be heard yelling. 

Orleck said she was zip-tied, placed in a van with other arrestees and held in lockup in Lebanon, New Hampshire, for two and a half hours. She was charged with criminal trespass, and the terms of her bail stated she was not allowed to return to the campus where she’d been teaching for more than 30 years.  

A former chair of the college’s Jewish Studies program who specializesin U.S. political history and women’s history, Orleck had been teaching the Civil Rights Movement just that afternoon. In an interview with HuffPost, she explained how …