Photos: Protesters interfere with TPD traffic stop
Dozens of protesters tried to use their bodies as shields to prevent the detention of three suspected illegal immigrants stopped in front of Southside Presbyterian Church Tuesday night. At the end of a sometimes raucous confrontation, the crowd was dispersed after Tucson Police Department officers used pepper spray to force them back onto the sidewalk.
Officers pepper-spray crowd during Tucson traffic stop confrontation
Cesar Lopez, right, and Leilani Clark get medical attention from Tucson fire after the Tucson Police Department used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Lopez and Clark were among several dozen protesters who gathered outside Southside Presbyterian Church in an attempt to prevent the Border Patrol from taking three people into custody.
