The protest, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, began around 6 p.m. with demonstrators expressing their outrage over the incident.
One organizer said that what happened in Minneapolis “marks a violent escalation in ICE’s tactics and the state’s repression of politician dissidents.”
Hannah Stauss, with the organization Hands Off NYC, warned, “We anticipate that they’re probably going to come and bring more ICE agents into New York City, and our plan is to be more organized than they are, just like you saw down in Chinatown.” The demonstrators protested for several hours, at one point marching around the nearby federal immigration building before returning to Foley Square…