"As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump's goons may be planning to do. The situation certainly has escalated in the last 24 hours, as President Trump dispatched some 100 federal agents to the Coast Guard Base in Alameda, for some sort of immigration enforcement operation that is also just clearly meant to provoke and intimidate Bay Area residents."
"SF Mayor Daniel Lurie made an urgent plea for calm Wednesday afternoon, but it was not terribly calm at the early Thursday morning protests in Alameda where two demonstrators were injured. Those protests were going as early as 5 am, so clearly some planning has gone into the organized response. KGO reports that "Thousands of people logged onto Zoom Wednesday night for a call to action," in a call organized by the group Bay Resistance."
Federal agents have arrived in the Bay Area, with roughly 100 agents reported at the Coast Guard Base in Alameda for an immigration enforcement operation. Local officials and residents view the deployment as intended to provoke and intimidate communities. Early Thursday protests in Alameda began as early as 5 am and resulted in two demonstrators being injured. Thousands of people participated in an organizing Zoom call led by Bay Resistance, and rallies and a march were scheduled in San Francisco, including a noon rally on the steps of City Hall. The mayor reported a presidential call and an announcement that deployment plans for San Francisco were called off, though details remain vague and do not rule out other operations.
Read at sfist.com
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