Nine people — including seven Binghamton University students — were arrested when an anti-war protest on the Vestal Parkway escalated into a confrontation with police shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday. Three students are in jail.
The charges included obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, resisting arrest (both Class A misdemeanors) and disorderly conduct (a violation).
Initial reports said ten people, many of them students, were arrested, but a press release from the Vestal Police Department listed nine individuals charged with arrest. Three of them, Andrew B. Epstein, Thomas A. Pieragastini, and David Bittner, all BU students, are in jail on $500 bail.
Pepper spray was used on several of the protesters “when the people who were arrested started to shove,” said John Butler, Vestal’s chief of police, adding that their eyes have since been “irrigated.”
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Here's video of the entire protes, in 2 parts: http://essentialdissent.blogspot.com/search?q=iraq+war+protests+at+binghamton+university
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