We’ve seen a lot of wild chaos from anti-ICE protests. 

But what happened outside the San Francisco Immigration Court on Tuesday was a straight-up brawl. 

Federal agents were trying to escort a person they were detaining out of the building. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a swarm of anti-ICE activists was trying to prevent them.

Videos posted on social media showed a tense scene Tuesday morning as roughly 30 protesters attempted to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from escorting the person to a van outside the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St. The group screamed, physically confronted agents and tried to block the van from departing, and ICE officers in body armor, at least some of whom wore masks, yelled for them to stay away and forcefully pushed and moved them away.

You can see the agents struggling to bring the detainee out through all the anti-ICE people in this , and it’s crazy. 

One of the ICE agents even yells at them to “Stay away from my gun!” apparently afraid they were grabbing at it. They kept trying to pull the detainee away from the agents. The agents, with great struggle, managed to get the person into a van. 

That’s when a bunch of the activists tried to stand in front of the van. But that was an unwise move. That wasn’t stopping the van. 

A video captured outside a San Francisco courthouse Tuesday morning shows protesters seemingly trying to block a deportation by clinging to an ICE van as it drives through the crowd. One is seen to fall from the vehicle while another holds on as it swerves.

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In videos, as the van departed at least two protesters can be seen clinging to the vehicle as it accelerates past the intersection of Montgomery and Sutter streets. One falls off the car at the crosswalk, while the van sways side to side, seemingly attempting to rock the other protester off of the front windshield.One video shows the protester still clinging to the van as the vehicle approaches the intersection of Post and Montgomery streets, one block further.