Demonstrators began to arrive at Three River Heritage Park in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood late Thursday afternoon.
Around 100 people marched toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at 3000 Sidney Street a few blocks away as part of a national chain of protests titled “Disappeared in America Visual Action,” organized under the Not Above the Law Coalition. According to the organization, the events are meant to “stand up for the rule of law.”
“We’re here for peace, we’re for human rights, we are here for due process, we are here for our country and for the Constitution. We’re not trying to throw stones at anybody,” Julia Whiteker, one of the event organizers, told WESA. “We would love to convince the ICE officers that they’re on the wrong side of history.”
The group began to march around 5:30 p.m., around the same time a thunderstorm began moving through. The group chanted as they made their way to the ICE office, where they set up a couple of speakers and a microphone in front of the building…