WATCH: Anti-ICE Protester Waving Upside Down American Flag Gets Hit By Car
An anti-ICE protester was hit by a car on Sunday during a Father’s Day protest outside of Delaney Hall in New Jersey.
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The woman, a protester from Minnesota, was calling for the release of all dads from the immigration detention facility in Newark as she waved an upside-down American flag — a sign of distress and political protest — along with dozens of other protesters.
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She was not seriously injured, according to a New Jersey-based activist group, Visibility Brigade, but she “is not yet believed to have sought medical care.”
Delaney Hall is run by the GEO Group, an American company that specializes in correctional services, and the driver was reportedly an employee of the group.
A hospitality tent, set up by the group Eyes on ICE, consisted of about 75 people with around 20 more protesters near the north gate, according to NJ.com. Some were holding signs that read “Free the dads, Close the camps” while playing music and hanging ties on a fence.
The protester who was hit “was not blocking vehicles, and could not see it coming,” according to Birdie Green, one of the event organizers and a co-founder of Visibility Brigade.
ICE agents deployed pepper spray and mace after the protester was hit, forcing an evacuation of the hospitality tent set up by protesters, Green told NJ.com.
The latest incident marked one of many clashes between protesters, the GEO Group, and federal officials. The protests started in May when several migrants detained at Delaney Hall went on a hunger strike, claiming they are living in packed rooms with no air conditioning, rotting food, and having their immigration cases ignored, according to the New York Post.
In a statement to NJ.com, DHS denied the conditions, saying that ICE “has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”
“There is no hunger strike at Delaney Hall at this time,” said a DHS spokesman. “No detainees are being beaten or abused.”
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