Campus cops at East Carolina University tackled and arrested one student and used pepper spray on others while breaking up a snowball fight earlier this week.

Several hundred ECU students joined the melee after a freak snowstorm hit the Greenville, NC campus on Tuesday, and the cops attempted unsuccessfully to reach dormitory staff and team coaches before intervening directly.

The arrested student had apparently hit a police officer in the back with a snowball.

(Hat tip to Joey Coleman, who passed along the story via Twitter.)

Update: Video of the arrest has found its way to YouTube: