From: "Richmond, Rick" <rrichmon@uwec.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:51:17 -0600 Subject: Zoltan at Tacoma protest Message-ID: <7A17A445D0203848B157E8D70D1AC77E376937D650@CHERRYPEPSI.uwec.edu>
War Protesters Arrested at Washington Port
The Associated Press
Monday 05 March 2007
Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-boun
d Army vehicles at a Washington state port.
Several dozen people showed up at the Port of Tacoma to protest the shi
pment of Stryker vehicles and other equipment from Fort Lewis. Caitlin Eswo
rthy, Walter Cuddeford and Jeffery Berryhill were arrested for investigatio
n of assault.
Zoltan Grossman, a geography professor at Evergreen State College in Ol
ympia who was observing the protest, said he didn't know what prompted the
arrests.
Esworthy is an Evergreen State student, and Cuddeford is a Navy veteran
, he said.
"There were no rocks, no weapons. People were not carrying anything but
signs," Grossman said. "We were on public space, on gravel, and there was
a white line that police had told us not to cross. I didn't see any of the
protesters cross that line."
Last May, hundreds of protesters objected to similar shipments at the P
ort of Olympia. Police pepper-sprayed some protesters who pulled down a por
t gate, and about three dozen people were arrested over several days.
Calls to police about Monday's arrest were not immediately returned.
Esworthy, Cuddeford and Berryhill were being held on $10,000 bail each at the Pierce County Jail.