Thousands Pack the Mission for Peaceful ICE Protest; SFPD Pulls Pepper Spray On Separate, Smaller Civic Center Protest

As many as 10,000 protesters jammed the streets of the Mission District Monday night in yet more public opposition to ICE actions in California, but a small splinter group hit Civic Center late at night, leading to arrests and SFPD pepper sprayings.

San Francisco continues to raise hell over ICE actions here and ICE raids in Southern California, and President Trump’s unauthorized calling of the National Guard and now the Marines in response to protests there. (And as the Chronicle reported Monday, this is a woefully underfunded effort with guardsmen forced to sleep on cement floors in basements.) Sunday’s SF protests netted as many as 154 arrests according to media reports, setting the table for another round of protests Monday night.

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