Tensions and tempers flared Wednesday as protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents faced off outside a San Francisco immigration court.
It marked the latest in a series of increasingly physical clashes between demonstrators and agents who are detaining people as they show up for routine immigration hearings.
Demonstrators said ICE detained at least one man who had come to court for a routine hearing, triggering a series of confrontations between federal agents and demonstrators. Those confrontations included at least one person being pepper sprayed and another being tackled by agents.
NBC Bay Area reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment on the incidents outside the courthouse but didn’t immediately hear back.
NBC Bay Area’s Christie Smith has more in the video report above.
Source: NBC Bay Area