Four protesters arrested at KSU shootings anniversary

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by Matt Fredmonsky and Dave O'Brien
Record-Courier Reporters

Kent -- ... Four protesters who sat in the middle of the West Main Street bridge and refused to comply with Kent police officers' orders to clear the road, were arrested and charged with failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to a Kent PD press release ...

The march, organized by the Kent State Anti-War Committee and Portage Peace Coalition, began on campus and proceeded west along East Main Street, stopping at the KSU U.S. Air Force ROTC building to post paper peace signs on the doors ...

Police clad in riot helmets and armed with pepper-ball guns tried to re-open the bridge to vehicle traffic shortly after 4:30 p.m., about an hour into the downtown gathering ...

Only minutes before his arrest, Arthrell told a Record-Courier reporter that he had been arrested six times during the "Tent City" protests of the late 1970s, when KSU built the Memorial Gym Annex at the site of the shootings, and 12 times overall during protest actions ...

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