A small group of activists opposed to immigration enforcement barricaded themselves in Mayor Todd Gloria’s office Friday, calling on him to take action regarding ICE.
The group sent messages and photos to various members of the media in the afternoon. The photos showed a list of demands posted in his office, along with two hastily written signs on the glass doors leading inside. They read “Welcome to the People’s Office.”
“A group of citizen activists has taken over Todd Gloria’s office. They are barricaded inside,” he activists said in a statement provided to Times of San Diego. “They are demanding that Gloria meet with them and send clear directives to SDPD regarding how they will protect the community from criminal actions by ICE agents.”
Neither Gloria’s office nor the San Diego Police Department responded to queries about the barricade. Police, a photographer reported as of 4 p.m., are on scene and preparing to remove members of the press from the area outside the mayor’s office.
Protesters interrupted Gloria’s Jan. 15 State of the City speech, some of focused on his role in responding to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Their actions have come under increasing scrutiny since an ICE officer shot and killed a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, two weeks ago.
Gloria answered the protesters, who were escorted from City Council chambers, where the speech was held, by calling Good’s death a murder and mentioning his concerns over the May 30 ICE raid on South Park’s Buona Forchetta.
The protesters at the speech also were angered by his apparent refusal to meet with them. One yelled, “You’re afraid of us. All we’re trying to do is meet with you and you won’t meet with us.”
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