Three people have been arrested following a protest over the toppling of a Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina.
The arrests occurred Thursday night as about 300 people gathered on the school’s Chapel Hill campus near where the statue known as “Silent Sam” was toppled last week.
Authorities kept a few dozen pro-Silent Sam protesters separate from a larger group of counterprotesters who had gathered for a “dance party” to celebrate the fall of the statue.
In a news release, university spokeswoman Carly Miller said two people were arrested for affray, while a third was arrested for resisting an officer. Officials did not release their names or say if they were protesting for or against the statue.
Miller says police told her that they deployed pepper spray multiple times to keep order. There were no injuries reported.