Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest
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Protest outside Google offices in Chelsea, Manhattan, NY, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. | Photo by Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa via AP Images Nine Google employees who occupied the company's offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in.
The workers were protesting Google's involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for Google and Amazon's cloud computing services. Employees at the Sunnyvale, California, campus occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office on Tuesday afternoon, while workers in New York held a sit-in in the common area of the Chelsea office's 10th floor.
Workers in the New York office captured the arrests on video. Around 9:45PM on Tuesday, nearly eight hours into the protest, a group of police officers and a man who appears to work at Google approached the four workers remaining in...