The arrestees were booked at the Sunnyvale Police Department Tuesday night and released on a citation.
Google employees and other demonstrators protest against the war in Gaza and Google’s work with the Israeli government on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in front of the Google offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. Sunnyvale police on Tuesday arrested five Google employees for criminal trespassing after they refused to leave a company building to protest the tech giant’s contract with Israel., demanding the company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.
After the protest cleared at 1:30 p.m., five remained in the complex and were allowed to stay by Google, but refused to leave at 6:30 p.m. when they were asked to leave, according to Sunnyvale police Capt. Dzanh Le. The arrestees were booked at the police department and released on a citation that same night.
“We were called back by Google. They wanted the individuals to leave but they refused the request,” Le said. “We asked them to leave and they refused again.”Crime and Public Safety |Advocate group Notech4apartheid, which also helped organize the protest, claimed in a live Twitch stream of the incident that they sat inside the office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud.
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