ICE Protesters TAKE OVER Hilton Hotel: "Housing Kidnappers!"
"We are not gonna stand for a government run by a bunch of CEO kings," one of hundreds of New Yorkers tells us after occupying hotel lobby housing ICE agents nationwide. 70 were arrested.
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As Americans nationwide reel over Trump’s s masked storm troopers terrorizing innocent people—and now murdering two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis—hundreds of New Yorkers marched to and then took over the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca by conducting a sit-in (watch video above).
“We are not going to stand for a government that is run by a bunch of CEO kings,” one of the hundreds of protesters that marched to the Hilton told Status Coup producer Michelle Dao.
Another protester invoked three U.S citizens who’ve been murdered by ICE and Border Patrol:
“My message to Renee Good, to Keith Porter, to Alex Pretti, is we will keep your fight going, we will make sure that we create a better world, that we create a just world.”
“This is what gives me hope, we’re here because the Hilton is housing ICE agents, the same ICE agents that are terrorizing our neighborhoods, and making our neighbors to scared to go outside—so we are here demanding that the Hilton toss ICE out on the streets,” another protester told us.
The protests at hotels housing ICE agents are increasing in Minneapolis and other cities like New York City—in fact, on January 25th, our reporter Tina-Desiree Berg was ATTACKED by a border patrol agent while covering a noise protest outside the Home2Suites Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis.
Beyond Border Patrol agents attacking Tina, other federal agents unleashed an onslaught of brutality on protesters (watch video directly above), firing so-called “less lethal” ammunition at protesters at point-blank range and launching flash bang grenades and tear gas at unarmed protesters.
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Let’s keep waking up the masses.
Everyone should watch the first video. It is only 8 minutes long. It covers an exploding resistance movement against Hilton Hotels which has a profitable contract to house the ICE gestapo that has been terrorizing our cities and murdering our neighbors.
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If ICE wants to be a paramilitary group, why are they renting hotel rooms? Obviously they should be making camp outdoors. Or at least until the invasion is complete and barracks can be erected for them.