SAN ANTONIO — An activist is facing federal charges after a protest turned chaotic in front of the planned ICE processing center on the city’s East Side.
We are still working to gather details but what we do know is roughly 30 demonstrators gathered at the site of the future immigrant processing center to protest plans to convert this warehouse into the processing center.
It didn’t take long before the group ‘Right to Rebel SATX’ and law enforcement clashed.
Footage of the incident shows protesters and law enforcement appear to be pushing each other in what appears to show law enforcement taking a protester behind the gate at around 6:40 p.m. on Friday.
We spoke with a representative of Right to Rebel SATX whose group called protesters to the warehouse claiming before the recording started agents who were behind the gate accused a protester of pushing it into them and assaulting an agent. That’s when they say law enforcement opened the gate.
They tell us members of Right to Rebel SATX were not the only people involved in the protest. There were other community members there. Right now we cant confirm if the individual arrested is part of their group.
We have confirmed that the person arrested is being held in Karnes county. We are working to find out who they are.
We also reached out to the department of homeland security and the FBI. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells us they are looking into the incident.