Anti-ICE March Held in Solidarity with LA Protests; Arrests Made, DPS Uses Gas
- On Monday night in Austin, Texas, police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse hundreds of protesters outside the J.J. Pickle Federal Building.
- The protests followed nationwide federal immigration raids by ICE and were organized in solidarity with ongoing demonstrations in Los Angeles.
- Protesters chanted outside the Texas Capitol, marched to the federal building, some vandalized property, and police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly before dispersing the crowd.
- Around 8:50 p.m., police launched several tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd, and more than a dozen protesters were taken into custody during the demonstrations in Austin and other cities across Texas.
- The protests highlight sustained public opposition to ICE raids and suggest ongoing tensions around immigration enforcement nationwide.
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Austin, U.S.A., 10 Jun (EFE).- Hundreds of people took to the streets in three of Texas' main cities on Monday night to support protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles. In Austin and Dallas, demonstrations were extended until dusk and ended in clashes with the local police, after authorities declared the protests “illegal assembly,” local media reported. In Austin, the state capital, protesters marched to the local Immigration and Cust…
Anti-ICE march held in solidarity with LA protests; Arrests made, DPS uses tear gas
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A large crowd of people gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Los Angeles, according to organizers. Texas Republican: 'This thing’s going to escalate' as deportations ‘about to go way up’ A flyer posted to Instagram invited people to "say 'ICE out of our cities! Stop the deportations!'" at 7 p.m. Monday. The post, from the Austin-…
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