ICE agents – For a week, anti-ICE demonstrators have protested outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, where detainees have reportedly been on a hunger strike. In response, federal agents used pepper spray and drove protesters into a road filled with semis and buses, a
On the outside of Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, barricades went up and protesters tried to block law enforcement vehicles as the standoff stretched into a seventh day.
The detention center has been the focal point of escalating demonstrations led by anti-ICE activists. who say the hunger strike inside has changed the stakes of the protest. For the past week. demonstrators have gathered at the facility. built barriers. and moved to stop enforcement vehicles from getting through.
But the federal response has not slowed. In a video report from Amanda Moore. she describes agents meeting the blockade with force. using large amounts of noxious pepper spray and driving protesters into a roadway crowded with semis and buses. The video’s account is blunt about the danger: ICE agents. Moore says. have repeatedly shoved protesters into the street even as trucks pass by.
Moore also describes a specific injury claim from the scene—one protester, she reports, was shoved into the wheel well of a truck and then had his foot run over.
The confrontation is already well-established on the ground: protesters have spent days at Delaney Hall, detainees inside have reportedly been on hunger strike, and each day’s attempts to halt law enforcement access have been met with what demonstrators characterize as escalating physical tactics.
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