Immigration policy protester arrested

Violence erupts after protesters ordered to remove their tents.

A woman was arrested Sunday outside the Atlanta Detention Center during a protest against a U.S. immigration policy that has separated children from their parents.

Tori Tremayne was arrested around 7 p.m. after officers attempted to remove tents built at the site, according to Atlanta police. Police have since cleared protesters from outside the jail. Officers told the group the tents violated city ordinance and first asked for their removal, which was refused.

“Several protesters became violent, fighting and throwing items at the officers, including frozen water bottles,” said Atlanta police spokesman officer Jarius Daugherty. “One woman was arrested

and charged with disorderly conduct.”

Tremayne was then taken inside the city jail on unspecified charges.

No officers were reported injured and no additional arrests were made, according to Channel 2 Action News.

On Saturday, as part of weekend demonstrations across the country, about 4,000 people peacefully walked from the detention center, which houses hundreds of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency detainees, to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building.

They heard U.S. Rep. John Lewis and others denounce the Trump administration for separating more than 2,000 children from their parents as part of a “zero-tolerance” crackdown on illegal immigration at the Mexican border, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

Last week, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the city jail will no longer accept new ICE detainees.

Protesters upset about President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy camped out outside the Atlanta City Jail. At one point there was a confrontation between protesters and police. The protesters’ tents violate a city ordinance and when they...

PHOTOS BY JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM An anti-ICE message is projected across the top of the Atlanta City Jail. Last week, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an order stopping Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) from sending any new detainees to the jail.

Tori Tremayne was charged with disorderly conduct, Atlanta police said.