BATON ROUGE - After seven students were removed and arrested at an LSU presidential search committee meeting, they were released, including one student who had been booked at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, raising questions about whether the arrests were justified.

Gabriela Juárez, who was speaking at the podium to the committee, exceeded her allotted three minutes and was forcibly removed by two LSU officers. She was released around 1 a.m.

"Clearly, we are having some impact," Juárez said.

Officials said Juárez was removed from the meeting after she exceeded her allotted three minutes to speak.

"I was not told 'you're being detained', Juárez said. "I was not given any lawful order. I had two men walk up to me and grab me violently while I was speaking, and I knew that I had to not co

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