Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Oakland on Tuesday night to express solidarity with Los Angeles, where a fifth day of protests were held to denounce arrests of immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
The gathering at Fruitvale Plaza stood in sharp contrast to demonstrations held in San Francisco on Sunday and Monday, which led to arrests of more than 200 people who refused police orders to disperse.
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Called “The Bay Stands with LA,” the event drew a crowd of a few hundred people was organized by Faith in Action East Bay, Bay Resistance and others. People held Mexican flags and signs with slogans like “Constitution Applies to All” and “We Are all Los Angeles” and calmly listened to a drum circle and other music performances and speeches from faith leaders.
On Sunday and Monday, thousands gathered in San Francisco to protest a spate of recent federal immigration arrests and the Trump administration’s most recent travel ban, as well as his decision to deploy the California National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles following protests there. On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration over the deployment, and immigration courts in San Francisco and Concord were shut down after arrests by ICE agents prompted more protests…