Police detained several individuals following an anti-ICE demonstration that took place inside a hotel in New York City on Tuesday evening, as reported.
Officers from the NYPD responded to the Hilton Garden Inn located on Sixth Avenue in Tribeca at around 6 p.m. after protesters took over the lobby, disrupting pedestrian access.
The activist group Sunrise Movement had earlier claimed on social media that ICE agents were being accommodated at the hotel.
Videos circulating online showed demonstrators chanting slogans and holding signs in the lobby, refusing to vacate the premises. They shouted phrases like, “No ICE, no KKK, no fascist America,” as well as “ICE out of New York.”
Some protesters were even heard criticizing the Secretary of Homeland Security, with shouts of “Kristi Noem will be hanged.”
Following the event, a spokesperson for New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani released a statement, commending the protesters for their actions. He remarked, “Mayor Mamdani appreciates the exercise of the right to protest against ICE.” He added that ICE has a history of targeting citizens with inhumane and illegal tactics, and he expressed satisfaction with the NYPD’s handling of the peaceful protest.
As an NYPD bus transporting the arrested demonstrators departed the hotel around 8:20 p.m., the remaining protesters chanted, “We love you, and we will get justice for you.” Officers maintained a presence at the hotel entrance as the crowd gradually dispersed.
The NYPD has yet to provide specific details regarding the number of arrests or potential charges.
The protests were catalyzed by the recent shooting of Alex Preti during an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis over the weekend. Earlier in the month, another incident took place where ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
On Monday, multiple anti-ICE protesters were arrested outside a different hotel in Minnesota after authorities declared the gathering an unlawful assembly. This demonstration occurred outside the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Maple Grove, around the belief that U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was present there.
Efforts to obtain comments from Hilton Garden Inn and the Department of Homeland Security have been made.
