Video Emory’s Gaza solidarity encampment: one year after the police raid

Around 7:30 a.m. on April 25, 2024, students at Emory University set up a Gaza Solidarity encampment. Less than three hours later, multiple police forces raided the encampment.

By Nolan Huber Rhoades, Lev Omelchenko & Wittika Chaplet

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April 25, 2025

After Oct. 7, 2023, students at universities across the country began widespread protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Police have responded to these protests with extreme acts of violence and repression.

Around 7:30 a.m. on April 25, 2024, students at Emory University set up a Gaza Solidarity encampment. Less than three hours later, multiple police forces raided the encampment.

Journalists with the Atlanta Community Press Collective, Lev Omelchenko and Wittika Chaplet, captured the scene in graphic detail.

Authors

Nolan Huber Rhoades

Nolan Huber is an Emmy Award winning Director, Producer, and Cinematographer who focuses on stories of resistance and liberation movements—particularly in the US South. They bring a revolutionary perspective to each story by approaching everything through the lenses of antiracism, feminism, queer liberation, and prison abolition. Their work has been featured in Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, NPR, VICE, More Perfect Union, and Atlanta Community Press Collective—where Nolan is currently on staff as the Head of Video News.

Lev Omelchenko

Wittika Chaplet