A protestor was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace on Friday throughout a rally in opposition to mass deportation in Orlando on Friday, OCSO mentioned. The arrest occurred as demonstrators gathered exterior the ICE facility on Delegates Drive.
In keeping with the arrest affidavit, Alexis Brianna Clark, 23, allegedly blocked the trail of after which struck a grey Chevrolet Impala that was recognized as a federal regulation enforcement car. Clark is being charged with assault on a regulation enforcement officer and resisting an officer with out violence.
Within the report, a deputy mentioned they noticed Clark — who was carrying a black motorbike helmet over a ski masks — punch the passenger side-mirror housing and the passenger facet window of the car. After further protestors began to yell and method the Impala, deputies on their bicycles started to method. They mentioned within the report they believed the state of affairs was going to get bodily or violent.
Deputies tried to arrest Clark who, in keeping with the report, was resisting. Clark was later taken to the bottom and handcuffed earlier than being escorted contained in the ICE workplace.
Confrontations between brokers of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement company and protestors have grown more and more violent throughout the nation in latest weeks, as federal officers assert their proper to make use of pressure. Nevertheless, there have been few such incidents in Central Florida.
“The best of all folks to peacefully assemble or protest is prime, and a cornerstone of each American’s First Modification proper to free speech,” Sheriff John Mina mentioned in an announcement. “What isn’t protected, nevertheless, is the destruction of property or violence in opposition to any member of our group.”
As of Friday night, Clark was being held held on a $1,000 bond.
