Police arrested multiple 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.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.Defend UNC, which calls itself an anti-racist group, held a food drive in protest over what the group described as plans to bring white supremacist hatred on campus.Activists from a group called the New Confederate States of America, which says 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.A doctoral candidate at UNC tweeting from the protest said police officers confiscated the food collected by Defend UNC as a safety procedure, and local news reports said police escorted members of the New Confederate States of America off UNC’s campus voluntarily.Police then used a smoke bomb 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