State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (S.D. 33), City Comptroller and former Democratic mayoral candidate, Brad Lander , and 70 others, including ten other elected officials, were arrested on Thursday evening, Sept. 18, inside or near 26 Federal Plaza courthouse in Manhattan, as an ICE [U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement] protest took place nearby, according to various sources.

The elected officials and protestors had been calling for an end to the disappearance , seemingly but inconclusively, by federal agents of various New Yorkers including high school students, off the City’s streets and courthouses, as well as demanding to inspect the conditions under which people were being held at the federal courthouse after a federal judge ruled the previous day that the conditions under which peop

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