People hold banners as they gather near a General Services Administration (GSA) parking lot to prevent federal officers from leaving a Manhattan garage. David Dee Delgado/Reuters

More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested in lower Manhattan on Saturday after their attempts to stop federal agents from conducting immigration and enforcement activities, according to a law enforcement official.

The group of protesters chanted “ICE out of New York” in footage that showed them forming a barrier to block federal agents in a car from leaving a garage. Some grabbed planters from the roadway and hurled them at federal vehicles, the official said. The confrontations prompted some officers to deploy what appeared to be pepper spray to subdue demonstrators, the official added.

The incident is t

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