"Sidewalks along Canal Street in Lower Manhattan were eerily empty the day after federal agents conducted the sweep of the area and cuffed dozens of vendors, purportedly as a crackdown on counterfeit merchandise sales something which the feds had traditionally left to the NYPD. Chaos ensued the afternoon prior as fuming passersby pleaded with the Feds to release the immigrants, only for things to escalate into a brutal clash."
"As the dust settled on Oct. 22, Nwa Ngam, who sells sweatshirts on Lafayette Street, recalled watching helplessly on Tuesday as a friend of over a decade and a half was whisked away in handcuffs without explanation even though he had an official NYC vendor ID around his neck. I know him. That's his vendor's license. You see his license? So, he wasn't an illegal vendor, like they said, Ngam said when amNewYork showed her a photograph of her friend being detained."
Masked ICE agents conducted a swift, physical sweep of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, handcuffing dozens of vendors in a purported crackdown on counterfeit merchandise sales. Sidewalks along Canal Street were eerily empty the following day as community members reacted with shock and anger. Chaos erupted during the operation as passersby pleaded with federal agents to release detained immigrants, and confrontations escalated into a brutal clash. Vendor Nwa Ngam recounted seeing a longtime vendor with an official NYC vendor ID detained without explanation. Ngam also reported that ICE agents approached her, and she was able to show identification proving U.S. citizenship.
Read at www.amny.com
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