Police arrest ICE protesters who bound themselves together


  • Jul 30, 2018


  • Updated 32 min ago

A senior code enforcement officer gathers name cards of those who've been deported or detained near a camp where protesters have been demonstrating outside at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, July 30, 2018. Tampa police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez says trespassing on private property led to the forced dispersal of the camp. (Bronte Wittpenn/Tampa Bay Times via AP)



  • Bronte Wittpenn






A sign can be seen hanging from the camp where protesters demonstrated outside the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, July 30, 2018. Tampa police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez says trespassing on private property led to the forced dispersal of the camp. (Bronte Wittpenn/Tampa Bay Times via AP)





TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say they've arrested six people who bound themselves with bicycle locks outside a federal office in a protest of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.




The Tampa Bay Times reports authorities broke the locks around the protesters' necks and arrested them Monday on trespassing charges.

The protest had started days ago with a handful of tents outside the Department of Homeland Security.


Tampa police Capt. Carlos Rodriguez says trespassing on private property led authorities to break up the camp. The Times says police also told protesters they were camping in violation of a local ordinance.

Recently, several prominent Democrats have called for major changes to immigration enforcement. Some critics have been pressing for the outright abolition of ICE, the federal government's chief immigration enforcement agency.

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