Overview
- New York police said protesters ignored repeated orders to disperse during a Chinatown demonstration, resulting in multiple arrests with no official tally released.
- One law‑enforcement official said more than a dozen people were arrested after crowds blocked exits to a garage where federal agents had staged.
- Videos show confrontations as demonstrators tried to stop unmarked vehicles, with debris thrown and agents deploying an irritant from inside vehicles, described by witnesses as possible pepper spray.
- HSI New York chief Ricky Patel apologized to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch for how agents conducted themselves, according to officials briefed on their call, and Tisch criticized the tactics as unsafe.
- Immigrant‑rights groups condemned the police response, demanded the release of detainees, and pressed for scrutiny of the irritant use, citing recent Canal Street operations that galvanized protests.