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Palo Alto police arrested a 34-year-old man after he notified local media that he had just spray painted the word "Yemen" in bright red letters across the sign at Lockheed Martin's Palo Alto headquarters on Saturday afternoon in protest of the aerospace company's sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia.

In an email to the Palo Alto Weekly sent at 3:04 p.m., he wrote: "My name's Bryce Druzin and I just vandalized Lockheed Martin's office at 325 Hanover St., Palo Alto. I did it to protest Lockheed's sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia for their war in Yemen and President Trump's recent veto of bipartisan congressional legislation that would have ended U.S. involvement and weapons sales."

Police arrived at Stanford Research Park before 4 p.m. to arrest Druzin, who was calmly waiting for them.

"You know, it just kind of built up over time. I'm glad I finally did it. I grew up in Palo Alto, and it's embarrassing to have this company in my hometown," Druzin told the Weekly as police were taking him into custody.

He said a particular motivating factor in his decision to protest the company was the Aug 9, 2018, bombing of a school bus in Yemen, when a Saudi plane dropped a bomb produced by Lockheed and killed 40 children.