Three individuals were arrested late Thursday night on Lower Broad shortly after 2 a.m., one of whom — Matthew Paige of The Blackfoot Gypsies, who'd just finished sitting in with the house band at Layla’s Bluegrass Inn — was charged with vandalism and resisting arrest after bumping into a police cruiser with his amplifier. According to multiple eyewitness accounts, Gaelen Mitchell — a fellow musician who was present during the incident — was shoved to the ground by an officer. You can see portion of the incident (including Mitchell being pushed to the sidewalk) in the footage above, which was shot by Jeffrey Marcom. Marcom and Mitchell were also subsequently arrested.

After Paige's set, his girlfriend Kim Logan double-parked in front of the venue with her hazards on so that Paige could load out his equipment. After five minutes, claims Paige, Officer Jeffrey C. Cason pulled up to ticket Logan.

“I’m carrying my stuff out, and I accidentally bump the front of his police car with my amplifier,” Paige tells the Scene. “[The officer] said that I did it on purpose, and that it was vandalism. And then when he asked for my I.D., I asked why. And that’s when shit started getting crazy.”

At that point, says Paige, he was arrested, and several individuals began recording the incident with their phones. Mitchell approached to ask what was happening, when “a cop turned around and, with two hands, shoved him right in the chest and knocked him back.” The footage above shows that Mitchell was shoved by one of the arresting officers, but with one hand only. Shortly after, Mitchell was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Marcom was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and possession (a marijuana pipe, marijuana, Adderall and lisdexamfetamine) — an arrest warrant notes that Officer Cason "had to physically push this defendant back for our safety."

Look after the jump to see excerpts from the arrest affidavits, as well as a response to the incident that Dave Pomeroy — president of the Nashville Musicians Union — posted on his Facebook page on Friday.