\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Orlando City Hall on Sunday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of a growing wave of demonstrations following a recent deadly shooting involving law enforcement in Minnesota.Protesters lined one side of the street while dozens of Orlando police officers stood on the other, monitoring the crowd. Authorities said the demonstration remained peaceful.Among those attending was Noodle Campbell, a military veteran who said the turnout was encouraging.\u201cIt gives me hope,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThe best thing a veteran can see right now is people uniting and coming together against tyranny.\u201dPerry Lee brought several family members, including his young son, to the protest. Wearing a Captain America costume, Lee said he wanted to show his child the importance of standing up for what he believes in.\u201cHe needs to be out here with us, fighting for his cause \u2014 for the future,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHe is our future.\u201dLee said the costume symbolized opposition to what he described as the actions of ICE.\u201cWhat he fights for, he would never support anything similar to ICE,\u201d Lee said. \u201cWhat they\u2019ve been doing to me, to people in general.\u201dThe demonstration was fueled in part by anger over a fatal shooting in Minnesota earlier this week that has drawn national attention and criticism of federal law enforcement.\u201cIf you were to do what happened in Minnesota over in Afghanistan or Iran, you would be court-martialed,\u201d protester Ian Bain said. \u201cYou would be put in the brig.\u201dOrlando police maintained a visible presence throughout the afternoon but did not intervene. Officials said they were monitoring the situation as crowds at similar protests around the country continue to grow.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Orlando City Hall on Sunday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of a growing wave of demonstrations following a recent deadly shooting involving law enforcement in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Protesters lined one side of the street while dozens of Orlando police officers stood on the other, monitoring the crowd. Authorities said the demonstration remained peaceful.<\/p>\n
Among those attending was Noodle Campbell, a military veteran who said the turnout was encouraging.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me hope,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThe best thing a veteran can see right now is people uniting and coming together against tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry Lee brought several family members, including his young son, to the protest. Wearing a Captain America costume, Lee said he wanted to show his child the importance of standing up for what he believes in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needs to be out here with us, fighting for his cause \u2014 for the future,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHe is our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee said the costume symbolized opposition to what he described as the actions of ICE.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he fights for, he would never support anything similar to ICE,\u201d Lee said. \u201cWhat they\u2019ve been doing to me, to people in general.\u201d<\/p>\n
The demonstration was fueled in part by anger over a fatal shooting in Minnesota earlier this week that has drawn national attention and criticism of federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you were to do what happened in Minnesota over in Afghanistan or Iran, you would be court-martialed,\u201d protester Ian Bain said. \u201cYou would be put in the brig.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orlando police maintained a visible presence throughout the afternoon but did not intervene. Officials said they were monitoring the situation as crowds at similar protests around the country continue to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Orlando City Hall on Sunday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2878,9230,4333,1877,1598,39735,57979,57981,139,16671,141,140,30131,3574,992,57980,3138,57982],"class_list":["post-114528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crowd","tag-demonstration","tag-hundred","tag-ice","tag-law-enforcement","tag-military-veteran","tag-minnesota-shooting","tag-noodle-campbell","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-hall","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-officer","tag-part","tag-people","tag-perry-lee","tag-protest","tag-recent-deadly-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}