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‼️ ALERT ‼️ ICE is showing up at NYC protests: On Wednesday, this man was walking with protestors when 5 agents jumped out of a van with guns drawn & threw him to the ground, 1 wearing a POLICE/HSI (division of ICE) vest. This man is a US citizen of Puerto Rican descent.
Agents held him on the ground with 3 guns pointed at him, cuffed him, illegally searched him, tried to search his phone, accused him of having a gun. All they found was his military/veteran id. They held him for 10 minutes looking for something to justify their attack on him. 
ICE is engaged in violent policing & NY must protect noncitizens, incl. protestors who are being targeted & criminalized for dissent. 100s of people are arrested & charged at courthouses where we know ICE stakes out. NY must pass #ICEOutofCourts NOW! @bradhoylman @MichaelleSolage
Fun facts from the trenches of govt transparency work: yesterday we got this response to our FOIA request for copies of ICE's records of prior approval for recent arrests at WA state courthouses. /1
In official policy, ICE says it will only conduct arrests at courthouses when "operationally necessary," approved ahead of time using a document called a Field Operations Worksheet, so we'd requested that doc for cases where enforcement actions may raise red flags. /2
Like the 6/20/19 incident in Thurston County in which plainclothes agents wrestled a man to the ground outside the courthouse, described by the presiding judge as “having all the lookings of a kidnapping.” theolympian.com/news/local/art… /3
