Dozens of protestors blocked access to the main Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco by chaining themselves to the entrance on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
KRON 4 in the SF Bay Area captured footage of the protest being broken up, including one protestor being carried away by several officers. The protestor was being hauled off next to a sign on the ground that read \u201cDignity & Human Rights for All.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal authorities, with the help of SF Fire Department and SFPD, ended the protest by using bolt cutters to break the chains tying them to the building; 44 people were arrested.<\/p>\n
KRON anchor Reyna Harvey reported no one was hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe protestors\u2019 goal [was] to speak up for immigrants they say are being unlawfully detained,\u201d Harvey said.<\/p>\n
Kevin Mann, a revered at a local Unitarian Church, told the outlet he was protesting to \u201cstand up\u201d for his \u201cneighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur immigrant neighbors are being abducted off the streets from this courthouse, going to legal courtrooms, and then they\u2019re not coming out,\u201d Mann said.<\/p>\n
Another protestor, Laurel Liefert, told KRON she was there to \u201cstand in solidarity with the lives that are being destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABC 7 in San Francisco reported<\/a> protestors demanded \u201clove over cruelty\u201d while chained together.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t want ICE. We don\u2019t want DHS. We don\u2019t. We don\u2019t want them in our city,\u201d one protestor told the outlet. \u201cWe don\u2019t want them messing with hardworking immigrants. We\u2019re just trying to find a path to citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security, in a statement, said the \u201crioters\u201d were \u201cimpeding law enforcement operations\u201d by chaining themselves to the ICE facility.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s SF protest comes as President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has ramped up its efforts to deport illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n Trump has sent ICE and Border Patrol agents to several major cities this year, including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Charlotte, for raids.<\/p>\n Those raids have often been met with protestors and rioters. Anti-ICE rioters at one raid in Manhattan last month \u201cthrew planters\u201d and \u201cchased\u201d federal agents<\/a> during an operation targeting a parking garage in Chinatown, leading to multiple arrests.<\/p>\n NewsNation, the month prior, captured another anti-ICE protest in NYC. Reporter Jessica Kartalija\u00a0captured the frenzied clash,<\/a> reporting protestors were \u201cyelling racial slurs\u201d and \u201cpushing\u201d federal agents as they swarmed their vehicles.<\/p>\n Watch KRON\u2019s report above.<\/p>\n The post WATCH: Dozens of Anti-ICE Protestors Arrested After Chaining Themselves to San Francisco ICE Facility: \u2018Love Over Cruelty!\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of protestors blocked access to the main Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco by chaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[47868,54017,2778,54018,54019,101,103,102,104,54016,106,105],"class_list":["post-98952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-dozens","tag-ice-facility","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-kevin-mann","tag-protestor","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-fire-department","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}