Live Blog: ICE protest at Texas Capitol

Austin – A large crowd of people gathered in Texas in Capitol in Austin on Monday in solidarity with those who protest the procedures for enforcement of immigration and customs in Los Angeles, according to the organizers.

bulletin It was published to Instagram I called people to “say” the ice from our cities! Stop deportation! “Starting at 7 pm Socialism and Liberation PartyIt was published on Sunday and called for “emergency protest.”

Since Friday, thousands have moved to the streets in Los Angeles to protest after ice agents arrested migrants in a number of places in the city, as well as the deployment of the National Guard forces in response to the initial protests, according to Associated Press.

Live Blog

9:19 pm: Our crew confirmed that the Congress Street Bridge is clear.

9:13 pmOur crew saw two arrests by DPS soldiers near the Capitol.

9:05 pm: The DPS KXan source tells that there are “about 100 people” in the Congress Street Bridge, and APD tries to disperse the crowd.

9 pmGrace reader Kxan from the city center of Austin:

8:51 pm.: Tear gas was used against a group of demonstrators. Our crew has been arrested. Collect CW Austin at 9 pm to hear the newer, and we will continue to update this live blog.

From APD on the use of tear gas as a method of controlling crowds during protests:

“APD is not allowed to use tear gas after the protests in 2020. Any tear gas will be deployed by DPS.”

8:40 pm. The protest breaks into smaller groups now.

8:30 pmThe enforcement of the law, the demonstrators who sprinkle it with pepper on the ninth and Congress. The demonstrators are now in several groups after they walked as lands to return to the lands of the Capitol.

8:27 pmThe crowd is now divided into two groups. One group walks again on the street. Another group sticks around the cabetol. Our protest crew said that people on the street would get another warning before his arrest.

8:21 pm: The application of the law obtained loudspeakers to tell people to move to the sidewalks because the streets were opening a reserve. Some demonstrators do not obey and scream in the application of the law.

8:16 pmThe march returned to the lands of the Capitol, and with the closure of the surfaces, the crowd gathered outside the gate. DPS closed the eleventh and Congress intersection. The crowd chants, “No more ice!”

8:06 pmThe crowd moves away from the federal building and returns to Congress Street towards Capitol.

8 pm: According to Austin Police Station on XThe planned path of the march is as follows:

• South on Congress Street to Street 7
• Street 7 to the Trinity
• North on the Trinity to the Eighth Street
• Eighth Street to Congress Street.
• North on Congress Street to Capitol

The post said if you are leading in the area to be aware of the crowd.

7:57 pmThe march was stopped outside the federal building in the eighth and San Jacinto. The crowd is now chanting, “From our streets? Our streets.”

7:54 pmThe march runs the Trainte Street again towards the lands of the Capitol. TEXAS DPS plans to hold the reasons “has been cleared and closed” at 8 pm

7:45 pm: “People, United, will never be defeated”, is the chanting now. The group is going on Congress Street.

7:38 pmThe crowd started in the march while it is in the eleventh and Congress area. They chant, “We will not bear the ice. Say it once, say twice.”

7:25 pmGrace’s reader in KXAN spoke to a person in protest and said that she decided to attend because she saw “what was going on in Los Angeles”, and she was “very afraid and annoying about what our president is doing and using his authority to turn the army against us.”

“They are on a hairpin that is there, and anything can stop it,” said Lynn Tozer, 67, said. “I don’t want to happen.”

7:10 pm: A unit of the installed dps reaches the Capitol lands. The protest leaders said they intended the march at some point.

7:05 pm: The leaders of the protest went to the basic rules for protesting and ordered the crowd not to engage with “instigators” or law enforcement. TEXAS DPS TOROPERS appears to have led someone who looks out of the crowd. DPS did not seem to have arrested the individual, at least than the KXan crew could see.

7 pm.: Kxan has a crew in the Capitol. The protest was scheduled to start at 7 pm with “dozens” of people there, but more than that was joining the protest. Texas DPS said that the Capitol lands will be “cleared and closed” at 8 pm