The peaceful protest began shortly after 6 p.m. and soon tripled in size as people congregated in front of a road closure, occupied by at least six members of the California National Guard.

Roughly 300 people gathered in Orange County Wednesday outside a federal courthouse in Santa Ana protesting ongoing immigration raids.

Orange County elected officials called on the public to demonstrate peacefully following a night of at-times rocky skirmishes between law enforcement and protesters against the Trump administration’s Southland immigration raids.