The Brief
- Anti-ICE protests in San Francisco Saturday included a demonstration on Van Ness Avenue, as well as a ‘human banner’ on Ocean Beach.
- Other Bay Area protests were held in cities like Concord and Santa Rosa.
- The nationwide protests are happening in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, with protesters calling for ICE agents to withdraw from U.S. cities.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Several protests were held in the Bay Area Saturday, demanding an end to increased immigration enforcement in U.S. cities.
Those demonstrations were among around 1,000 happening across the country.
Van Ness Avenue
Protesters filled Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. Their message echoed that of other protesters around the nation: ‘ICE out for good’.
“We’re saying this type of action, we need to get rid of it, and it has no place in our nation ever,” said Laura Luster of Oakland. …