Tacoma city prosecutors deciding whether to charge Iraq protesters

[struggle4progress]

TACOMA, Wash. It will be up to city of Tacoma prosecutors to decide whether to charge anti-war activists arrested while demonstrating against the shipment of Fort Lewis equipment.
Pierce County prosecutors declined to file assault charges.

Four people were arrested Monday at the Port of Tacoma.

Fort Lewis is loading Stryker vehicles and other gear on a ship for a Stryker brigade deployment to Iraq.

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Published March 07, 2007
Christian Hill
The Olympian

Three Olympia residents arrested Monday at the Port of Tacoma won’t face charges stemming from a protest there, their lawyer said Tuesday, but one of them was arrested again during a Tacoma City Council meeting Tuesday.

Walter Cuddeford, 28, was arrested after he refused repeated requests to wrap up his remarks during the meeting’s public-comments forum, a Tacoma Police spokesman said. Cuddeford decried Monday’s arrest in his remarks before he ran over his allotted three minutes, said Rob McNair-Huff, city of Tacoma spokesman. He was asked twice to sum up his comments but refused, McNair-Huff said. After the third warning, police arrested him on charges of trespassing and disrupting a city council meeting, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

Jeffery Berryhill, 22, Caitlin Esworthy, 24, and Cuddeford, 28, were arrested by Tacoma police after they allegedly pushed their way through a line of officers who were ensuring the road was unobstructed for military cargo heading into the port.

They were released from jail Monday night after being booked on investigation of third-degree assault, a felony, and posting bail ...

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[Pierzin]

1. thank you struggle4progress! and thank you protesters!!!!

Here's hoping the local protests this week are massive!!!