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The first arrest occurred at around 11 p.m. last night of a Cal Polytechnic Humboldt student resident of the dorms. At his arrest this reporter asked the student why he was being arrested, and the student replied that he had not “returned to my room fast enough.” One of the arresting officers said the student had been told repeatedly to return to his dorm room as a closed campus had been declared. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)The protest, which began last Monday, called for a cease-fire and divestment from Israel amid the war in Gaza. Protesters had occupied two buildings, Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall, and constructed barricades on footpaths riot police could be seen breaking early Tuesday morning over livestreams.
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