The activist group that calls itself the Badass Feminists of Gainesville held an anti-ICE protest in front of the Oaks Mall on Saturday.
On Sunday, hundreds of people lined the sidewalks near Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville to protest the shooting death of a Minneapolis man the day before.
Chants of “ICE OUT, ICE OUT, ICE OUT” could be heard along Newberry Road, a high-traffic area that ensured visibility for the group by drivers and passengers.
One participant who asked to remain anonymous has been attending protests like the one near the mall for the past months and said, “A couple of months ago, you would have people giving us the finger or giving us the thumbs down or just, shaking their heads at us.”…