Multiple people arrested after protests at former 'Silent Sam' site

SEASON.>>> IT HAS BOUGHT -- IT

HAS BEEN MORE THAN TWO WEEKS

SINCE PROTESTERS HAVE BEEN

STANDING.

SUPPORTERS OF THE SAME STATUTE

MAINTAINED THEIR POSITION.

PROTESTERS AGAIN SILENT SAM

STAGED A COOK OFF AS THEIR WAY

OF DEMONSTRATING.

EVENTUALLY, SUPPORTERS OF

SILENT SAM SHOWED UP AND SOME

CARRIED CONFEDERATE FLAGS.

IT ENDED WITH EIGHT ARRESTS.

WE HAVE CASEY TO WALK US

THROUGH WHAT HAPPENED.

>> Reporter: SILENT SAM IS NOT

EVEN HERE ANYMORE BUT THE

CAMPUS WAS ANYTHING BUT QUIET

TODAY.

POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS WENT

HEAD-TO-HEAD TODAY.

WE SAW AT LEAST FOUR ARRESTS

AFTER A GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS

CLASHED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THE DAY STARTED OUT AS A

COMMUNITY PICNIC AND ORGANIZERS

HAD A BARBECUE AND PROTESTED

THE GROUP ON CAMPUS THEY

BELIEVE TO BE [NULL]

WHITE SUPREMACISTS.

>> WE WILL NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO

WALK AROUND OVER HERE .

>> CAN'T DO -- CANNED GOODS

WERE DONATED AND DELIVERED TO A

SHELTER.

THAT WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF

CONFLICT UNTIL THE GROUP WITH

CONFEDERATE FLAGS ARRIVED.

THEY CALLED THEMSELVES THE NEW

CONFEDERATE STATE.

THEY HAD WORDS AND CHANCE AND

THAT WAS THE ONLY THING

EXCHANGED OVER THE COURSE OF

TWO HOURS.

WHEN THE CONFEDERATE STATES

GROUP WAS ESCORTED OFF CAMPUS,

THINGS ESCALATED.

THE GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS

TURNED ON POLICE AND THEY WERE

UPSET THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT

PROTECTED A GROUP THAT STANDS

FOR THIS.

POLICE FROM DURHAM AND CHAPEL

HILL ARE IN GORDON'S BOROUGH

HELD THE CROWD BACK AS THEY

PUSHED THROUGH.

THE LINE OF BIKES WAS USED TO

KEEP PROTESTERS BACK.

ONE STUDENT FELT THE BRUNT OF

THAT FIRST HAND AND WAS LATER

ARRESTED.

HE TELLS US SILENT SAM WILL

NEVER COME BACK TO CHAPEL HILL

-- CHAPEL HILL'S CAMPUS.

>> IF THEY PUT IT BACK UP, IT

WILL NOT LAST.

>> Reporter: WE WERE NOT ABLE

TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO ANYONE

IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES GROUP

TO SPEAK WITH US BUT SO FAR WE

KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT

ARRESTS.

>> THANK YOU.