{"id":9099,"date":"2018-07-11T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9099"},"modified":"2018-07-11T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:34:45","slug":"sfpd-arrests-39-occupy-ice-protesters-in-encampment-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/11\/sfpd-arrests-39-occupy-ice-protesters-in-encampment-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"SFPD arrests 39 Occupy ICE protesters in encampment sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A security guard patrols outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters on Monday, July 9, 2018, where an Occupy Ice camp was broken up by police just hours earlier. (Kevin N. Hume\/S.F. Examiner)<\/em><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Michael Barba<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ian Williams<\/a>\u00a0on July 9, 2018 (SFExaminer.com)<\/p>\n

Dozens of protesters were arrested early Monday morning when San Francisco police raided an encampment of activists calling for the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to police.<\/p>\n

Police cited 39 activists on suspicion of misdemeanor lodging in public during the midnight raid on the encampment outside the ICE offices on Washington Street between Sansome and Battery streets, according to Officer Robert Rueca, a police spokesperson. Ten of the protesters were also arrested for allegedly resisting arrest.<\/p>\n

All of the protestors have been released from custody.<\/p>\n

Since last Monday, the protesters had blocked a path that immigration authorities use to transport detainees to and from the ICE offices at 630 Sansome St. The encampment grew amid news that the Trump administration detains and separates children from their families at the U.S. and Mexico border.<\/p>\n

Rueca said police received \u201cnumerous complaints from the community regarding violations of health hazards,\u201d including public urination and cooking with open flames. A majority of those arrested were Bay Area residents, with 16 coming from San Francisco and 15 from other Bay Area cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur City has specific restrictions against sidewalk camping,\u201d Rueca said in a statement. \u201cFrequent admonishments had been given to participants at this encampment over the last week and prior to last night\u2019s action. But the blockage of the street continued.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoe Samudzi, one of the advocates for the abolition of ICE, arrived at the encampment as police cleared it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was devastating to see all that labor and the community members scattered,\u201d said Samudzi. \u201cAt the same time, it reinforced our solidarity because it showed the state is really afraid of us. It\u2019s reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEE RELATED:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Occupy ICE\u2019 protesters camp out, call for abolishment of federal agency<\/a><\/p>\n

The sweep comes just days before Supervisor London Breed is set to be sworn in as mayor. PJ Johnston, a spokesperson for Breed, said the mayor-elect is \u201cmonitoring, but we have no comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was hardly a trace of the encampment by 10 a.m. Monday when Josiah Luis Laderete, 48, arrived to participate in the now terminated protest. Laderete had come Thursday with a group of poets. But only faded chalk and sidewalk barricades remained Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to keep coming,\u201d Laderete said. \u201cIt might be the Latino face that people see, but this effects everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s a matter of survival,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat could have been my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both SFPD and the Department of Homeland Security were still present in the area Monday morning.<\/p>\n

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A woman walks past barricades outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters on Monday, July 9, 2018, where Occupy ICE tents were set up just hours earlier. (Kevin N. Hume\/S.F. Examiner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They\u2019re dismantling the camp, getting really edgy and itchy about people staying outside of the police blockade. Advancing with truncheons drawn for taking photographs or stepping too far off the sidewalk to observe #<\/span>occupyicesf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n