Anti-ICE and pro-Trump protesters fought in downtown Tampa last Monday afternoon.

A couple hundred anti-ICE protesters descended on Tampa City Hall in solidarity with Los Angeles activists being targeted by Trump. The president issued a memorandum yesterday calling L.A. activists protesting ICE raids “violent mobs” and deploying 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines.

Organizers in Tampa would not identify themselves, but a social media post promoting the event listed groups like Occupy Florida, Florida Valkyries, Resistance Support, Voices of Florida, 50501 Florida.

After a smaller group of counter-protesters wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and carrying pro-Trump flags showed up, a shouting match between the two groups led to shoving. The skirmish was broken up by police.

A spokesperson for Tampa Police Department is updating Creative Loafing Tampa Bay on whether or not there were any arrests.

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Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,...

Dave Decker is a songwriter and photographer living in Tampa Bay.