"The person lived in the building, and unfortunately, they left behind a wife and two kids. One, I think, being two or three, and the other one being three months old, said Neil Constantine, who came to document the interaction. She was bawling."
"When neighbors in the building got wind of what was taking place, sources said, they notified one another through a group chat and attempted to rally around the man whom ICE targeted for arrest. According to an eyewitness, about 15 people converged outside the building on the street."
"The crowd then began blowing whistles when they noticed an unlicensed vehicle with tinted windows lurking about a block away in order to warn others of ICE's presence. As they drew closer, it sounded its sirens and flashed its lights. That's when the people were trying to stand in the way."
On February 24 at approximately 6 p.m. near Bushwick Avenue and Suydam Street in Brooklyn, ICE agents and a federal enforcement and removal officer detained a man outside an apartment building, separating him from his wife and two young children. Neighbors learned of the detention through a group chat and mobilized approximately 15 residents to gather outside the building. The crowd attempted to obstruct an unmarked vehicle with tinted windows by blowing whistles to warn others of ICE's presence and pulling objects from the street. The incident represents one of the most dramatic ICE operations on a New York street since federal raids in Chinatown the previous year.
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