#community-violence

#community-violence

It's Saturday morning, and news breaks shortly after the Premier League kickoff window; another member of your community has been brutally killed in the streets by ICE. There are already a few videos on social media, depicting multiple angles of the grotesque scene. This killing, like the one before, has felt inevitable because of the actions of the federal government, and in spite of the diligence and peaceful pushback by you and your neighbors.

Mr. Boutcher stated, 'Stop this violence... It is not in any way a way for a civilised society to behave and it must stop now.'

At Newark's HUBB Arts and Trauma Center (HUBB ATC), we see every day the struggles of young people to overcome trauma in their daily lives and to take the difficult steps needed to break the cycle of violence.

As soon as I pulled up my scarf, a group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me. They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting 'death to Arabs.' I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene.

Parish Priest Fr Stephen Duffy expressed the gravity of the situation, stating, "it was not a nice experience, something I would not wish on anyone."