Police have been videoed unleashing pepper spray to clear the streets for federal law enforcement and Immigration and Customs officials to escape a failed raid on Canal St. in Lower Manhattan.
Pictures across social media showed that ICE officials arrived on Canal St. ready to conduct full raids in an area heavily populated by Chinese and other Asian immigrants, as well as vendors from a myriad of nationalities often selling counterfeit products.
Previous posts on social media showed shoppers-turned-protestors blockading ICE officials from leaving a garage. A short while later, NYPD allegedly arrived on the scene and began releasing mace on the protestors…