A U.S. citizen, San Francisco resident Angelica Guerrero, was detained while protesting outside the immigration building at 630 Sansome Street. Small groups have been rallying there for months against ICE detentions. Guerrero was held for about 24 hours before her release, and family and community advocates reacted emotionally. Guerrero described being unable to contact a lawyer or family and feared being shipped to Louisiana unnoticed. She was transferred to multiple facilities, including Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail, where she described barbaric, subhuman conditions with walls covered in feces and blood. Video shows a federal agent tackling her during the arrest.
"Without a phone call, without being able to contact a lawyer or anything," Guerrero said. "They could have shipped me to Louisiana. Nobody would have known about it until charges were filed."
"Those holding cells in Santa Rita Jail are barbaric," Guerrero said. "Santa Rita Jail has been prosecuted many times for their subhuman and miserable conditions. The walls where I was meant to sleep were covered in feces and blood."
"An agent tackled her and detained her. Put her hands behind her back. I didn't hear any rights being read or anything like that," Sanika Mahajan of Mission Action said.
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