<p>Police arrested multiple</a> people after a tense standoff between an anti-racist group and another group, which says it defends southern heritage, at the University of North Carolina (UNC) on September 8.</p><p>The two groups held competing events on UNC’s campus at the site of the Silent Sam statue, a confederate monument, which was toppled on August 20</a>.</p><p>Defend UNC, which calls itself an anti-racist group, held</a> a food drive in protest over what the group described as plans to bring white supremacist hatred on campus.</p><p>Activists from a group called the New Confederate States of America</a>, which says</a> one of its goals is to preserve confederate monuments, arrived and tensions grew as members of the opposing groups began to yell at each other.</p><p>A doctoral candidate at UNC tweeting from the protest said</a> police officers confiscated the food collected by Defend UNC as a safety procedure, and local news reports said</a> police escorted members of the New Confederate States of America off UNC’s campus voluntarily.</p><p>Police then used a smoke bomb</a> and arrested eight people, tackling some of them to the ground as seen in this footage. Storyful is seeking more information about the charges against them. Credit: Tony Crider via Storyful</p><br />
