About a dozen students showed up at Denny Chimes on the University of Alabama campus at noon Wednesday to protest the arrest of four people following an anti-war demonstration two weeks ago.
“We want an apology from the university for their attempts to equate protesting with terrorism and violence,” said Corbin Martin, a UA student and Iraq War veteran. “We refuse to be intimidated and harassed on our own campus.”
On Feb. 29, Students for a Democratic Society staged a mock interrogation near the dining area inside the UA Ferguson Center. Three students wearing Middle Eastern-style head scarves, pretending to converse in Arabic, were confronted and loudly interrogated by four men dressed as soldiers.
UA police charged four people with disorderly conduct for the theatrics.
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