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Newark Mayor and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka was
released Friday night after being collared at the US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement detention facility that opened Tuesday — and which
he has vowed to shut down.
Bakara was released around 7:50 p.m. to cheers from the large crowd of protesters and swath of public officials — including Big Apple mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Video posted to X at just after 3 p.m. by a News 12 New Jersey reporter
showed Baraka, with his hands cuffed behind his back, being led away
from the detention center by a Homeland Security Investigations officer.
Baraka “committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention in
Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” Alina Habba, the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey wrote on X five minutes later.
“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in
this state. He has been taken into custody,” Habba posted, adding “NO
ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/us-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-wh ile-protesting-ice-detention-facility/
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