A medley of state and local police officers arrested nearly 70 protesters late at night on Jan. 28 outside of the Graduate Hotel on the University of Minnesota campus.
The arrests followed the third noise demonstration this month targeting the Graduate Hotel, a chain of hotels run by Hilton, for housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents.
State troopers and conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the assistance of the Minneapolis Police Department and the University of Minnesota Police Department, arrested all of the protesters at the intersection of Washington Avenue SE and Walnut Street SE after forcing them back from the hotel multiple times by threatening arrests over a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, mounted on a UMNPD Jeep.