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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 shed been teaching for more than 30 years.

A former chair of the colleges Jewish studies program who specializes in U.S. political history and womens history, Orleck had been teaching about the civil rights movement that afternoon. In an interview with HuffPost, she explained how the ordeal unfolded.

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Police officers arresting an elderly demonstrator @WMUR9 pic.twitter.com/2hOFaiNcHq
Ross Ketschke WMUR (@RossWMUR) May 2, 2024

She initially came out to the College Green on Wednesday afternoon in support of graduate student workers who went on strike . The labor action, she said, eventually morphed into a broader protest against the college, calling for Dartmouth to divest from companies tied to Israel.

A very small number of students intended to set up an encampment, Orleck said. She and other supporters were asked to encircle them to create a barrier with police.

It was peaceful, Orleck said. It was a very minor, mild protest. There were multi-faith expressions of solidarity, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian. It was a really nice, peaceful event.

She and others broke for dinner around 7:30 p.m., but they soon got a message that more cops had shown up. Concerned, Orleck and her group older women faculty, she described them headed back.

The Green was transformed, Orleck said. There was an unbelievable presence of militarized police. Like nothing Id seen in more than 30 years of teaching here. And so the students on campus were upset by that, and so the numbers on the Green began to grow.

I fault the institution for bringing in riot police. [The protest] was completely, 100% peaceful.
- Annelise Orleck

She said that presence included campus security, local police from Hanover and Lebanon and state police. She credited the campus security officers for keeping order but said they eventually moved out.

Orleck said police officers in riot gear were swooping in and arresting those who were part of the encampment. She and her faculty friends tried to stand between the two sides, thinking the police wouldnt get physical with older women.

Well, that was wrong, Orleck said.

She started taking pictures with her phone and telling the police to leave the demonstrators alone. She says she was thrown to the ground. A video from Dartmouth student journalist David Adkins posted on X shows Orleck getting up and confronting police. Orleck says one took her phone and she was demanding it back.

The video from WMUR journalist Ross Ketschke shows a cop in riot gear yanking Orleck away from the protest and handing her off to a pair of cops in trooper-style hats. Orleck tumbles to the ground she says she didnt fall but was pushed. Then they drag her onto her stomach.

They slammed me down ... They were dragging me. My hands still hurt ... They kneeled on my back, Orleck said.

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