Current workers, former workers, and community members were hog-tied, violently dragged, and pepper-sprayed,’ according to organizers No Azure for Apartheid

Protesters set up a “Liberated Zone” at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, escalating pressure on the company to end contracts with Israel.

Redmond PD and Microsoft claim force was necessary because protestors became “aggressive” and their action “threatened” others. “I was standing 10 feet away the entire time,” TRNN’s Maximillian Alvarez says,

The protesters set up tents in a “liberated zone” on the Redmond campus and toted signs that urged co-workers to “Join the worker intifada: no labor for genocide.”

In the run-up to Xbox events at Gamescom police have dispersed a protest about Microsoft's Israeli military dealings at the company's Redmond, Washington HQ.