War protesters move from Port to downtown, City Hall
Tacoma Daily Index
March 07, 2007
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Dozens of people gathered outside the federal building in 
downtown Tacoma yesterday to protest the war in Iraq and 
a decision to move Army Stryker vehicles through the Port 
of Tacoma to serve soldiers in combat in the Middle East. 
The protest was the latest in a series of actions that 
started at the Port of Tacoma early Monday, where four 
people were arrested on charges of felony assault, and 
continued Monday afternoon on the Pacific Avenue overpass 
near Interstate 5. 

Olympia resident Wally Cuddeford, a veteran of the U.S. 
Navy, was one of the protesters arrested at the port this 
week. He showed off some of the injuries he said he 
suffered when he was arrested at the port. He claims he 
was tazed three times and dragged across a gravel street 
by police officers. "There have been protests all over 

Tacoma to bring attention to these shipments through the 
port," said Cuddeford. 

Yesterday evening, Cuddeford was arrested again by Tacoma 
police on charges of trespassing and disrupting a City 
Council meeting after he refused to quit speaking during 
the meeting's allotted public comment period.