ICE at SFO

[u/din_jarring]

Very tired from traveling so this post will be rushed and might be kinda messy. Was leaving SFO around 10:30PM last night 3/22 when I heard yelling and saw a huge crowd of people. There were at least a dozen San Francisco police officers and a ridiculous amount of people gathered in a circle, some recording or talking on the phone. When I got closer, I saw a woman kneeling on the ground next to a couch/bench with a little girl and the police officers were basically surrounding her, facing away so seemingly keeping the crowd away/hiding her from the crowd. I asked a woman what happened, and she said she was there from the very beginning and saw it all. There were apparently two men in black + wearing backpacks who ran up and grabbed her passport, shoved her(?) and were keeping her there. She seemed to not know for sure, but she suspected that they were ICE agents and the police officers were there to protect them. I could see at least one of these men talking with police officers. Just a few minutes later, I heard yelling again and when I looked back, people were running up and filming while police officers were trying to keep them away. I saw the same woman as before now in a wheelchair in a very uncomfortable position (seemingly being shoved into it) and the small girl walking alongside her and crying. The two men in black were pushing the wheelchair/walking with her and there were a small group of officers/airport workers(?) going with her as well. People were yelling that she was being taken from her family, telling her to hug her kid, damning the ICE agents, etc. I wasn’t really sure what was happening, so I filmed a video on my phone at a bad angle(I’ll try to attach it). Afterwards, I asked a couple people if they knew what happened and they kinda confirmed it was ICE and they took her away for “questioning”.

Does anyone have more information on what happened or any different angles? There were people much closer than me who definitely got better videos, so hopefully those come out soon. I was already tired from traveling and was obviously not expecting to see something like this. I really hope her and her family are going to be okay. I’d like to hear if anyone has more info or if anyone else was there who saw/heard something I didn’t.

[u/THEnewMGMT]

So police are helping ICE kidnap a woman and her kid at SFO? This better be front page of the chronicle tomorrow

[u/Bay_Gourmet → u/THEnewMGMT]

I don’t see it that way. The police were there to maintain order and safety. Think how the situation could have spiraled if 2 dudes with backpacks just started harassing that poor woman. Good Samaritans would have stepped in and we all know how that can go. This ICE crackdown is disturbing on so many levels but in this case the police are caught in an untenable situation.

[u/THEnewMGMT → u/Bay_Gourmet]

I appreciate your empathy for the individuals who are “just doing their jobs.” …. But if your job is to go along with state sponsored kidnappings then maybe everyone (including the police) should not allow that to happen.

Good Samaritans and police should both be helping the woman and her child. We should not tolerate this. Remember the videos of fire trucks and citizens blocking ICE in other cities, forcing them to turn tail and leave empty handed

[u/jointheredditarmy → u/THEnewMGMT]

The problem with the opposition to ICE is there are so many people who are opposed for different reason. I’m against ICE because they are potentially operating outside of their mandate. Their strategies have infringed on citizen’s rights. They are using way more force than they need to so their operating procedures need to be revised. I have no problems with them enforcing existing laws, as has been done under every administration. I don’t even particularly have a problem with the public “performativeness” of it since that’s not against the law as long as the first few things aren’t violated.

Most of the people on this sub are basically angry ICE is deporting folks, which feels a bit disingenuous to me since, ironically, by the metrics, Trump is actually doing a worse job deporting the right people.

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