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ICE raids South Park’s Buona Forchetta, draws angry crowd outside popular restaurant
Usually Buona Forchetta has customers waiting out front, lined up to enter the popular Beech Street restaurant.Instead, after an hour-and-15 minute operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the jittery crowd wasn’t waiting for Italian food.
On the street, on the sidewalks, large and small groups talked about what had just happened. It was a crowd of curious, mad, disappointed people joined by television crews with cameras.
Both the main restaurant and their smaller place next door were raided and witnesses said when the contingent of officers attempted to remove two employees, they encountered a hostile response.
How hostile? ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off. Black remnants of the bangs remained visible on the pavement outside the restaurant.
[The manager] said there were about 20-25 officers who “surrounded the building and then came inside” pushing him against the wall and handcuffing him. [and other employees as they checked ID. The two arrested had no ID, per the manager.]
