Hotel Host Attempting To Evict Us Today, Despite Not Canceling Airbnb Reservation

5:00pm 6/2 update: Everything has been fixed! The hotel and airbnb did indeed have miscommunications. The hotel is honoring our rooms, rates, keys, etc. They have also apologized after hours of back and forth. I have never felt this uncomfortable in my life before. My advice to everyone in the future:
REGARDING HOUSING, TAKE MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS. Sign everything yourself. READ everything you sign. Do not rely on others. Thankfully in my case, those that I relied on were awesome and helped us out. However, just do your own paperwork and booking regardless.
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TL;DR: Our Hotel is attempting to evict us due to a false technicality, but the Airbnb reservation still exists for us. Airbnb is telling us not to leave because that would mean we canceled voluntarily and would not get a refund, so we are holed up in our room. Are we within our rights to stay as long as possible?
[Seattle, Washington, US] Hello, I'm staying in a Seattle hotel with a few friends for our summer internship. We have one friend who booked two reservations: he is staying with friends in the first suite, and I am staying with my friends in the second suite. These reservations were booked through Airbnb, which works directly with our hotel.
However, it appears that our room may have been upgraded in error a while ago, and the hotel is aware of it. Due to some recent events (I can explain if necessary/asked in the comments), the hotel is accusing us of subletting through the friend who booked the two reservations via Airbnb. Through this 'technicality,' they claim that we have broken our terms and agreements with the hotel and Airbnb, and are trying to evict us (1). We believe they are trying to remove us because they also overbooked for this week, and they are making less money off of us.
(1): Two nights ago, Friday, a Director came into our room and attempted to force us to leave within 20 minutes. After leaving, she returned 30 minutes later with another Executive, whom we talked to extensively. The result of this discussion was that we have until Sunday (today) to check out, but we are still evicted.
Despite this, we have been in frequent communication with Airbnb, and they have told us to absolutely not voluntarily check out. Doing so would mean that we voluntarily left, so the hotel can legitimately cancel our stay and not refund us money. Airbnb has made it clear to us that the reservation still exists on their platform, and that we are entitled to our room or an entire refund.
As of now, it is past 11am, and we have not left. We have received some knocks and a phone call. Are we within our rights to stay here and fight this? Are there any legal precedents? The Hotel is not responding to Airbnb because the Executives are out for the weekend. If the police come, we will peacefully leave.
Thank you all. Please absolutely feel free to ask for additional information if necessary.
Edit #1: Please see comments for further clarification on the situation, there is a lot of info there.
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