Protest against ICE leads to arrests at Amazon Books in NYC
August 12, 2019
A protest against Amazon.com’s AWS division’s contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency by a group known as #JewsAgainstICE took place yesterday at one of the e-tail giant’s book stores. The protest, which drew around 1,000 people, according to one of the organizers, resulted in the arrests of around 40 demonstrators.
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