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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Vibe shift' as New Yorkers force ICE to back down -- Dan Froomkin
https://www.headsupnews.org/p/vibe-shift-as-new-yorkers-force-iceProtesters on offense instead of defense
There was a remarkable scene outside a federal government garage in New York Citys Chinatown on Saturday morning.
Dozens of masked federal agents had gathered inside in preparation for a raid.
Hundreds of New Yorkers wouldnt let them out.
As the agents vehicles moved to leave, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade at the mouth of the garage with their bodies and piling mounds of garbage bags beside them. The standoff continued for the better part of an hour as more and more protesters arrived, the New York Times reported. .
By the early afternoon, nearly 200 people had gathered on the street outside, chanting and yelling at the agents, who peered out from inside the garage.
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Dozens of masked federal agents had gathered inside in preparation for a raid.
Hundreds of New Yorkers wouldnt let them out.
As the agents vehicles moved to leave, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade at the mouth of the garage with their bodies and piling mounds of garbage bags beside them. The standoff continued for the better part of an hour as more and more protesters arrived, the New York Times reported. .
By the early afternoon, nearly 200 people had gathered on the street outside, chanting and yelling at the agents, who peered out from inside the garage.
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'Vibe shift' as New Yorkers force ICE to back down -- Dan Froomkin (Original Post)
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lindysalsagal
(22,821 posts)1. Welcome to NY!
popsdenver
(1,268 posts)4. Guess the RepubliCONs
and ICE, etc. don't want to take on the 20 million people in the NewYork city area......They would rather only take on elderly women, men, and children, that don't fight back.......
aeromanKC
(3,779 posts)2. Finally!!
There are more of us than them!!
MLWR
(714 posts)3. Many thanks to NEW YORK for doing what was needed to be done.
electric_blue68
(25,271 posts)5. Wow, I actually hadn't heard the full details...
that they'd blocked ICE vehicles w bodies and garbage bags!
W0000T!!