[News] Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

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Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F.
immigration court
Frankie Solinsky Duryea
July 8, 2025
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[image: Police officers and masked individuals clash at a building
entrance; one person holds up a bicycle amid the confrontation.] ICE agents
and protesters clashing outside the San Francisco immigration courthouse at
100 Mongtomery St. on July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea.

Federal immigration agents clashed with around 20 protestors using their
bikes and bodies to block the front door of San Francisco’s immigration
courthouse on Tuesday morning. Agents pointed their rifles, deployed pepper
spray, and shoved people to the ground.

At one point, a black immigration van sped through half a dozen protesters
crowded near its front, and a woman holding onto its hood was thrown off.

The clash started at 11:18 a.m. on Tuesday when around 10 Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents, almost all with faces covered, tried to enter
the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St.
<https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-immigrants-arrested-courthouse-ice/>
to escort other agents already inside who had a young immigrant man in
custody.

ICE has been routinely arresting
<https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-ice-arrests-tracker/> asylum-seekers
following their immigration hearings, and anti-ICE protesters had gathered
at the courthouse that morning, as they said they’ve been doing every
Tuesday.

The agents struggled for over a minute to open the building’s front door.
The protesters had formed a chain across the entrance.

ICE agents, several of whom appeared to be the same officers who fought
with protesters two weeks ago
<https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-protests-clash-ice-immigration-arrests/>,
screamed “Fuck you!” and “Get back!” while pushing protesters with their
batons. They jostled over bicycles people were using to block the entrance,
as high-pitched screams rang out. Protesters wearing keffiyehs shouted
“Fuck you puto!” — using the Spanish word for “bitch” — before swarming
onto the ICE agents exiting the building with the handcuffed man.

[image: YouTube video]

Protesters tried to grab the man in handcuffs and pull him away from
officers, but were tossed back by the ICE agents. As police pulled the man
back into a waiting black SUV and began driving away, protesters jumped
onto the van’s front hood.

A half-dozen protesters blocked the van by amassing in front of it. The van
inched forward, indifferent, before gaining speed and driving off quickly.
One protester, still lying on the hood of the car, fell off the car’s hood
half a block away and was almost run over. “Oh shit!” one protester
screamed, seeing her fall. “Jesus Christ.”

There have been several clashes
<https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-protests-clash-ice-immigration-arrests/>
between protesters and ICE agents
<https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-protests-clash-ice-immigration-arrests/>
this year but this was the most violent to date.

The arrest of the man at immigration court was confirmed by Milli Atkinson,
an immigration specialist with the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Lawyers with the Rapid Response Network are responding, Atkinson said.
[image: A police officer stands next to an open car door in front of a
building marked “SFFD” with red garage doors and the number 13.]An ICE
agent exiting his vehicle and brandishing a rifle, which he pointed at
protesters and press, on July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie Solinsky
Duryea. [image:
A group of masked individuals and police officers struggle in front of
glass doors at a Chase bank entrance.]ICE agents and protesters clashing
outside the San Francisco immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. on
July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. [image: Plainclothes police
officers in tactical gear detain a masked individual on a city street, as
bystanders watch in the background.]ICE agents and protesters clashing
outside the San Francisco immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. on
July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. [image: A group of people
stand and sit by a building beside a large banner reading “Stop the
Kidnappings” in red and black letters.]Protesters had amassed outside San
Francisco’s immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. earlier in the
day. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea.

Federal agents proceeded to walk the eight blocks back to ICE headquarters
at 630 Sansome St., as protesters trailed them and chanted “ICE out of the
Bay.” Several San Francisco police officers, who had gathered at the
immigration courthouse earlier that morning, walked behind the group.

One protester rode alongside the moving convoy on his bike, yelling “ICE
out the Bay!” and “You should be ashamed of yourselves!” as onlookers at
every street and adjoining coffee shop stopped what they did to watch the
moving brawl.

An ICE agent, wearing a light gray shirt beneath his vest, pepper sprayed
one protester at Market and Montgomery streets. The man quickly collapsed,
and others gathered around him holding his head up and pouring water over
his face, telling him not to touch his eyes.

[image: YouTube video]

The officer who used the pepper spray then appeared to be held back by his
colleagues, as they kept walking back to ICE headquarters. He stared down a
protester in a red keffiyeh for blocks of the walk who was saying “You’re a
traitor” and “Your parents were immigrants, asshole.”

Protesters screamed, “Your grandchildren are going to learn not to be like
you.” At one point, an ICE agent addressed a protester, saying “Just keep a
distance. We get it alright, we get it.” A protestor responded, “If you get
it, why are you doing this.”

“You know that’s not what I meant,” the agent said.

At 11:50 a.m., just a block away from ICE headquarters where half a dozen
agents were still surrounded by a similar number of protesters, an agent
warned protesters that they could be arrested. He then moved forward and
tried to arrest two protesters, pushing them into a wall.
[image: Police officers detain several people wearing keffiyehs during a
street altercation in an urban area with bystanders and vehicles in the
background.]ICE agents and protesters clashing outside the San Francisco
immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. on July 8, 2025. Photo by
Frankie Solinsky Duryea. [image: Police officers in tactical gear with
"POLICE ICE" vests detain several individuals during a street confrontation
near a Chase bank branch.]ICE agents and protesters clashing outside the
San Francisco immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. on July 8, 2025.
Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea. [image: A group of people push against a
black car on a city street, some wearing masks and hooded clothing, next to
a building with large windows.]ICE agents shoving protesters off the hood
of an SUV outside San Francisco’s immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery
St. on July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie Solinsky Duryea.

Another uniformed ICE agent stepped out of an unmarked police van at 11:53
a.m. and pointed a matte black rifle at protestors and press, including
this reporter, screaming “Get the fuck back!” An SFPD officer stood by and
watched from a distance.

The crowd backed off after managing to free protesters held by agents. One
ICE officer yelled, “We’ll get you next time!” while walking backward.

The ICE agents retreated the following block, and entered 630 Sansome St.
Outside, a line of approximately 20 people had gathered, for immigration
check-ins and removal court hearings. They stared at protesters and agents,
largely silent.
[image: People attend to a person on the ground next to a fallen bicycle at
a city street intersection while a man rides by on a scooter. Pedestrians
and parked vehicles are visible nearby.]Protesters going to check in on the
woman who was thrown off the hood of an ICE SUV on July 8, 2025, outside
San Francisco’s immigration courthouse at 100 Mongtomery St. Photo by
Frankie Solinsky Duryea. [image: Several law enforcement officers,
including ICE agents in tactical gear, stand together on a city sidewalk
near a 7-Eleven store.]An ICE agent being held back by colleagues after
protesters told him, “You’re a traitor,” on July 8, 2025. Photo by Frankie
Solinsky Duryea.

<https://missionlocal.org/author/frankiesd/>

Intern. Frankie was born and raised in Burlingame but currently attends
Princeton University where he studies comparative literature and
journalism. He likes taking photos on his grandpa's old film camera,
walking anywhere with tall trees, and listening to loud music.

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