Atlanta’s mayor said today that the city police were investigating an incident in which a Tufts University historian, in town for the American Historical Association’s annual meeting, was handcuffed and jailed for jaywalking, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The professor, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, was thrown to the ground in the course of being arrested, and all charges against him were subsequently dropped. The newspaper’s article has more details on the incident, and is accompanied by a torrent of comments, most of them criticizing the actions of the police.