More than 300 ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, continued a hunger and labor strike for a sixth day. Organizers and community members rallied outside the facility with tense but energized support, distributing water bottles, personal protective equipment, and oranges. Protesters used chants and honking from passing tractor-trailers, and some mocked ICE agents, prompting laughter. Around 9:40 p.m., detainees signaled recognition by flashing a light from a top-floor window, and supporters responded with a celebratory roar. Later, supporters tried to form a human chain to block vans, while livestreamed footage showed ICE agents using batons and pushing protesters toward traffic, including an incident where a protester’s foot was run over by a tractor-trailer. A protester reported being hit with a baton and sprayed with chemicals, and the DHS secretary said six protesters were arrested.
"Wednesday marked the sixth day that more than 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees were on a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. Meanwhile, the mood amid the dozens of organizers and community members rallying outside the facility was tense but energized with support. Masked protesters circulated, handing out water bottles, personal protective equipment and oranges."
"Around 9.40pm, detainees sent out a message of recognition, a reminder that they were separated by about 40ft and walls: a light flashed on and off from inside the top-floor window of Delaney Hall closest to the protesters, who responded with a celebratory roar. Shortly after, things turned violent."
"Late on Wednesday, supporters attempted to form a human chain to block vans coming in and out of the facility. Livestreamed footage from the outlet Status Coup showed ICE agents hitting protesters with batons and steadily, as they had all day, pushing protesters further into oncoming traffic, including one protester into a tractor-trailer, getting their foot run over."
"Durga Sreenivasan, a protester who organizes with Hands Off NYC, says she was hit with a baton, and that ICE agents sprayed chemicals. According to the DHS secretary, Markwayne Mullin, six protesters were arrested."
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