SEATTLE — Protestors opposing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gathered outside Seattle’s federal building on Tuesday, clashing with police at one point and making makeshift barricades.
The protests, one of many across the nation happening now, took place early Tuesday morning outside the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building on 1st Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Protestors gathered in solidarity with the anti-ICE raid protests in Los Angeles, which have drawn national attention both for the intensity of the protests and the response from President Donald Trump’s sending in the National Guard and Marines to quell the protests.
The group in Seattle was seen throwing dozens of e-bikes and scooters in front of the federal building, piling them up at doors and the exit to the building parking garage.
The build-up of bikes and scooters that were zip-tied together to create a barricade outside the building to slow down an ICE bus from leaving.
In a statement to KIRO 7, an ICE representative wrote:
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fully respects the Constitutional rights of all people to peacefully express their opinions. That being said, ICE remains committed to performing its immigration enforcement mission consistent with federal law and agency policy.”
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