NYPD agents arrested more than a dozen people and unleashed clouds of pepper spray on a spontaneous protest formed around a SoHo parking garage where masked agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had gathered inside.
It’s unclear exactly what the federal agents had planned for Saturday, and a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from THE CITY. But the agents began staging around 11 a.m inside the federally owned parking facility at Howard and Center streets, near the spot on Canal Street where federal agents using military gear had carried out a wave of arrests of immigrant street vendors last month.
Hellgate reported ICE had planned another large-scale immigration raid for Saturday afternoon that got hastily called off as protesters and vendors appeared to have heard of it…