SPOKANE — It was gut-wrenching for Ami Manning to watch as her 23-year-old son, Holden, was grabbed by the hair, shoved to the ground and arrested by law enforcement on June 11 during a Spokane protest over immigration enforcement.

“It was meant to send a message, to scare us, to silence us, to make us believe that standing up for our neighbors is too dangerous,” Manning said. “We have to continue to show up for each other. Silence will not serve us, but now more than ever, we need to be vocal, visible and continue together to resist these fascist government assaults on our community.”

Manning gave her account of what happened that day to a group of about 40 people assembled underneath a shelter at the Ice Age Floods Playground in Riverfront Park on Wednesday to condemn federal overreach

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