Approximately 400 people marched through downtown Long Beach Sunday afternoon to protest the federal government’s wave of aggressive immigration enforcement and agents’ recent killing of a man they’d wrestled to the ground in Minnesota.
Protesters rallied at Pine Avenue and Third Street before taking to the streets, weaving along major roadways including Ocean Boulevard and Long Beach Boulevard, sometimes redirected by police lines.
One resident of Alamitos Beach came with a sign she had repurposed from when she attended protests in Los Angeles over the summer, a time when President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard into the area. “I have about five signs since this president took office and started stomping all over the constitution, the rule of law, due process, kidnapping people — killing people now,” she said…