Dozens of protesters arrested at hotel in Manhattan during sit-in over immigration crackdown
Dozens of protesters were arrested Tuesday after they occupied the lobby of a Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan, accusing the hotel of housing federal immigration officers.
Protesters packed into the small lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, wearing shirts that read “Hilton houses ICE” and calling for the hotel to stop federal immigration officers from staying there.
A person who answered the phone at the hotel declined to comment. An email to Hilton's press office was not returned Tuesday night.
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department said its officers ordered the crowd to leave before eventually arresting the protesters who remained in the lobby. The police spokesperson said it was not immediately clear how many people were arrested, though a photographer with The Associated Press witnessed dozens of people being detained and loaded into buses outside the hotel.
Via AP news wire