Wild scene as protesters trap federal agents in taco shop parking lot, multiple arrests made

PARTICULAR TUCSON Ariz Protesters swarmed a Mexican restaurant in Tucson Arizona Friday morning briefly locking a group of federal agents in a gated parking lot as they were executing a search warrant in connection with a sprawling tax and immigration fraud inspection It happened outside a Taco Giro restaurant on North Grande Avenue in Tucson A SWAT group responded after protesters surrounded the feds and allegedly used a bike lock to block the exit with agents inside Special agents and officers from ICE Homeland Protection Investigations IRS Criminal Inspection and other federal partners are executing search warrants in southern Arizona as part of a years-long research into immigration and tax violations an ICE spokesperson narrated Fox News Digital Multiple individuals are in custody ARRESTS MADE AS ANTI-ICE AGITATORS CAUGHT ON CAMERA CLASHING WITH FEDERAL OFFICERS OUTSIDE PORTLAND FACILITYMore information is expected to be distributed soon he added Government arrived at the restaurant around a m It wasn't open yet Between and protesters began gathering outside an hour later chanting Go home ICE and other slogans selected including profanity Multiple of them were carrying identical signs reading illegal arrests require a hood One protester was seen shoving a finger in an agent's face standing behind a steel barricade RIOTERS THROW TRASH GARBAGE CANS AT ICE VEHICLES IN NEW YORK CITY MULTIPLE ARRESTSAmong them was a more confrontational group of about a dozen Shortly after someone threw a bottle at an ICE van Another placed a bike lock around the gate locking the agents inside Officers deployed flash bangs and pepper spray and arrested at least two people in the mob in front of a photographer After administration cut the lock off with a saw video shows smoke in the air as they filed out of the parking lot in law enforcement vehicles Protesters were heard jeering as they left Earlier the agents were also seen entering a house around the corner just attempts away Photos taken there show multiple men in handcuffs being loaded into the back of an SUV ICE reported the raids were part of a sprawling assessment into immigration and tax fraud