Fourth arrest in Iraq war protest at Port of Tacoma
Associated Press 
The Olympian
March 06, 2007
http://www.theolympian.com/377/story/69024.html

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Police have arrested a fourth demonstrator in anti-war 
protests at the Port of Tacoma while court appearances were pending for three 
arrested earlier for investigation of assault.

Officer Mark W. Fulgum said a woman was arrested shortly before midnight Monday 
after she crossed a boundary line drawn by officers in the second night of 
protests against the shipment of vehicles and equipment for deployment of the 
Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division from nearby Fort Lewis to Iraq.

No information on charges was available early Tuesday. The protest drew about 50 
police and 50 demonstrators, 20 more than on Sunday night.

Jeffery Berryhill, 22; Walter Cuddeford, 28; and Caitlin Esworthy, 24, all from 
the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, were jailed early Monday for 
investigation of assault with bail set at $10,000 each. They were expected to 
appear in court Tuesday.

Zoltan Grossman, a geography professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia 
who was observing the protest, said Esworthy is an Evergreen State student and 
Cuddeford is a Navy veteran.

Berryhill and Cuddeford are awaiting trial in Thurston County District Court on 
second-degree trespass charge from a protest May 30 at the Port of Olympia, one 
of a series of demonstrations in which nearly 40 people were arrested while 
trying to block similar Army shipments last spring.

Without giving names police said one of the men charged through a police line, 
headed for an officer in a threatening manner and was shot with a foam 
projectile about the size of a small soda can, causing a bruise on his thigh, 
while the other was arrested after pushing past the police line and struggling 
with officers.

Esworthy pushed past the police line and tried to grab one of the officers 
before a second officer put her in a ''bear hug-type'' hold, Fulghum said.
The fourth arrest was made shortly after 12 to 15 Army vehicles arrived at a 
storage yard. More convoys of Stryker armored fighting vehicles, supplies and 
equipment are expected through Friday as the Stryker brigade prepares to leave a 
month earlier than scheduled as part of a previously announced U.S. troop 
buildup in Iraq.

''The ultimate goal is to do everything we can to stop the war, and what we can 
do now is go down to the port,'' said Patrick Edelbacher, 20, of the Tacoma Port 
Militarization Resistance, which was organized partly by the Olympia group.

Demonstrators said the Army's decision to ship the vehicles through Tacoma 
rather than Olympia this time showed the success of the demonstrations last 
year, when police used pepper spray as protesters tried to climb fences on port 
property.

''They didn't want the demonstrations repeated,'' said Mark Nelson of Key 
Peninsula, one of about two dozen sign-waving protesters Monday afternoon on an 
Interstate 5 overpass.

Joseph W. Hitt, a Fort Lewis spokesman, said shipping decisions are made at the 
Army Surface Distribution and Deployment Command at Fort Eustis, Va., and 
usually are based on port availability.

''I don't know why they made the decision to go out of the Port of Tacoma 
instead of the Port of Olympia,'' Hitt said.