Photos: Protesters clash with TPD and security outside ICE facility. Graphic images.
A protest that led to a violent confrontation with security outside an ICE facility on Country Club Road, ended hours later with Tucson Police breaking up the lines at Valencia and taking three into custody, June 11, 2025, Tucson, Ariz.
A security guard uses chemical spray on Karly Low at the barricades as demonstrators clash with law enforcement and private security outside an ICE facility on south Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025. A few hundred protesters stormed the barricades pushing back the guards before Tucson Police arrived.
Tucson Police take a demonstrator into custody after they broke up the last of the protesters blocking Valencia and Country Club following a clash with law enforcement and private security outside an ICE facility Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A guard with a chemical ammunition weapon is hit with a balloon filled with paint as demonstrators forced their way through a bike-rack barrier outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A guard is pushed back by demonstrators shoving a bike rack barrier as a few hundred protesters break through the line outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A guard sprays a demonstrator with a chemical as he tries to force him back from a barrier outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Street medics work to flush chemical irritant from a demonstrator involved in a clash with private security outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A paint-spattered demonstrator faces off over the barriers with private security outside an ICE facility on south Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A guard bats away a barrier thrown at him by demonstrators outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025. A few hundred protesters clashed with the guards using fireworks, paint balloons and other objects until Tucson Police arrived.
A demonstrator and a security guard try to kick a smoke bomb into each other’s lines after it was tossed into the fray during a confrontation outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road on Wednesday.
A guard fires chemical ammunition at some of the few hundred demonstrators forcing back a handful of security outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator sprays paint on the gates of an ICE facility on South Country Club Road as others push the guards back, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrators hurls a rock at the windows of an ICE facility on south Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025. A few hundred protestors swarmed outside the building before Tucson Police arrived and they retreated into an hour or so long standoff.
A demonstrator with a chunk of water heater cut into a shield heads to a line of others standing off with Tucson police following a clash with security outside an ICE facility on South Country Club on Wednesday.
A demonstrator stands defiantly during a stand off with Tucson police after fighting with security outside an ICE facility on South Country Club on Wednesday evening. After an hour or so the protestors retreated to line the intersection of Valencia and Country Club.
A Tucson Police officer shoos away a woman who ventured too close to their lines as they face off outside an ICE facility on South Country Club Road, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator uses a skateboard for an impromptu sign as a protest spills into the streets at Valencia and Country Club after battling with security outside a nearby ICE facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A pair of demonstrators hold up traffic on eastbound Valencia at Country Club where they retreated with a couple hundred others after a confrontation with security guards at an ICE facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Demonstrators shout at Tucson Police as they begin to break up the last of a few hundred protestors during an hours long confrontation ended at Valencia and Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A guard pulls away a crude shield to threaten the demonstrators with a chemical ammunition weapon outside an ICE facility on south Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator spray paints slogans on the gates an ICE facility on south Country Club as hundreds of protesters swarmed the facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A lone demonstrator ventures out of the line a few hundred to taunt the line of Tucson Police outside an ICE facility on south Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Demonstrators wave at traffic on Valencia from the closed down Country Club during an hours long confrontation at an ICE facility and Tucson Police, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Demonstrators sit in the westbound lanes of Valencia at County Club after a protest spilled into the intersection after a clash with security at a nearby ICE facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator sits in Country Club Road at Valencia to face an approaching line of Tucson Police after a few hundred swarmed an ICE facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator drops in surrender as Tucson Police dash to take him into custody during the last stages of an hours-long protest that ended at the intersection of Valencia and Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator is taken into custody as Tucson Police move to break up the last of a posttest at Valencia and Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator sprays bubbles among the few hundred gathered to protest at Valencia and County Club before things got more serious in a clash at an ICE facility, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Demonstrators flash their signs during in an anti-ICE protest building at Valencia and Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
A demonstrator stands in the middle of Valencia as vehicles speed by a protest at an ICE facility that had already shut down traffic on Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
One of the demonstrators, carrying a hybrid US-Mexico flag, gets cell phone video of the anti-ICE protest on all four corners of Valencia and Country Club, Tucson, Ariz., June 11, 2025.
Kelly Presnell
Photojournalist
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