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ICE Uses Pepper Spray, Detains Protester After Courthouse Clash in San Francisco

The confrontation followed the arrest of an asylum-seeker after a hearing, reflecting intensifying conflicts over transfers from the city’s immigration court.

Overview

  • Protesters tried to block ICE officers escorting a detained person from the immigration court at 100 Montgomery Street to waiting vans.
  • Video and witness accounts show masked officers using batons to push people aside as agents moved on foot toward the ICE field office at 630 Sansome Street.
  • Agents deployed pepper spray on multiple protesters near the field office, and one person was pinned, zip-tied and taken inside the building.
  • KQED reported that an officer fired a device that released white powder into a protester’s leg during a struggle over a bicycle.
  • Demonstrators chased the convoy and punctured a van’s front tire, and the incident follows earlier protester detentions outside the same office on Aug. 8.