LSUPD officers arrested two protesters in the Quad Tuesday for disturbing the peace, remaining after being forbidden and interfering with the student-staff process.
Officers responded to an anonymous phone call about a male and a female protester, both unaffiliated with the University, carrying anti-abortion signage and passing out pamphlets in the Quad, according to Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman.
Officers asked the protesters to relocate to Free Speech Plaza as part of University policy, but Tabor said the protesters refused to move and started a verbal confrontation with the officers.
“They kept egging [the police] on, saying ‘what law are we breaking?'” said Zach Abshire, a geography freshman who saw the arrest.
Abshire and other eye-witnesses said the pair refused to cooperate with police, attempting to take video of the arrest despite orders to drop the cameras. He said it appeared the two were part of some out-of-state group.
The protesters had signs with pictures of aborted fetuses and anti-abortion rhetoric, including “Save The Humans.”
Tabor said the two were arrested around 1 p.m.
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