Nearly 90 Arrested at Abolish ICE Protest
Police arrested nearly 90 protesters at an Abolish ICE demonstration Saturday in New York City’s Times Square near the New York Police Department’s headquarters, police said.
The New York Post reported that the police and protesters, who were demonstrating against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based on recent reports that the agency performed unneeded hysterectomies on illegal alien women, clashed in Manhattan’s Times Square. . .
[Warning: video contains explicit language.]
The NYPD just attacked us at the Times Square abolish ICE protest for stepping off the sidewalk. Several organizers arrested for no reason. Police violence at protests is escalating in nyc, please pay attention pic.twitter.com/HcyAosYEtu
— Isabelle Leyva (@isabelle_leyva) September 19, 2020
An NYPD public alert system blared that the protesters were “unlawfully in the roadway and obstructing vehicular traffic.”
In total, 86 people were arrested throughout the protest, 41 of them being men and 45 of them being women.
All were charged with one count of disorderly conduct, and one protester was charged with one count of resisting arrest. (Read more from “Nearly 90 Arrested at Abolish ICE Protest” HERE)
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