Sixty people were arrested Sunday night in downtown San Francisco after a protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration raids became chaotic amid his extraordinary deployment of federal troops hundreds of miles away in Southern California.
The protest started peacefully around 6 p.m. near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Sansome Street, but within an hour it had grown into a tense standoff between demonstrators and police. While many in the crowd of hundreds departed after officers declared an unlawful assembly, some continued marching through streets before officers began making arrests several hours later on Montgomery Street.
Some protesters shattered windows and vandalized buildings, Muni vehicles and an SFPD patrol car, according to police and Mayor Daniel Lurie. Three police officers were injured, one of whom went to a hospital for treatment, the SFPD said.
