A mixture of state and local police arrested at least a dozen protesters shortly after 10 p.m. on Feb. 5, 2026, just outside of the Graduate Hotel on Washington Avenue South East.

In a heavy handed show of force, state troopers alongside the University of Minnesota Police Department and the Minneapolis Police Department, responded to a prescheduled noise demonstration at the Graduate Hotel on the UMN campus by immediately kettling protesters and arresting the ones who were not quick enough to vacate the Washington Avenue South East corridor between Harvard Street South East and Walnut Street South East.

This was the fourth noise demonstration held at the Graduate Hotel since the beginning of January, and the police response was remarkably quicker than the previous one on Jan. 28.

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