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Ilsa

(63,780 posts)
Fri May 9, 2025, 04:41 PM May 2025

The Newark NJ mayor was arrested on the PUBLIC

side of the fence surrounding the ICE facility. He had been a few steps on the property line when guards had opened the gate for him. Then they told him to leave. Then someone who had just been on the phone gathered about 20 armed, mostly masked agents and they went OUT of the facility and arrested on public property.

This is how it happened according to Rep. Menendez, who along with two other congresspersons was visiting the facility as part of his oversight role. He said he wasn't there to protest.

The mayor is being held at the facility. Menendez is trying to regain entry to check on the mayor.

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The Newark NJ mayor was arrested on the PUBLIC (Original Post) Ilsa May 2025 OP
I wish we could dox ICE agents. nt Ilsa May 2025 #1
Are they Ice hannah May 2025 #3
THIS !!! So now anyone dressed like them can go and say they're ICE and kidnap people uponit7771 May 2025 #23
Whatever happened to badge nos., name strips, rank patches? Seinan Sensei May 2025 #25
Or are bdamomma May 2025 #28
Same same Codifer May 2025 #29
In due time JustAnotherGen May 2025 #9
That's why they wear masks. TomSlick May 2025 #14
They can't afford to be identified. dchill May 2025 #17
Maybe it's time for the state and local police to get involved. nt Gore1FL May 2025 #2
I don't disagree but local LEOs confronting federal LEOs would be fraught. TomSlick May 2025 #15
I'd say we're already on the other side of fraught. dchill May 2025 #19
"making them identify themselves." Right!!! uponit7771 May 2025 #26
I met him two weekends ago NJCher May 2025 #4
I was so impressed with him at our convention JustAnotherGen May 2025 #37
That's great to hear! nt Ilsa May 2025 #48
The mayor should shut down everything connected to the facility: power, water, sewage, city roads, block it all off. sop May 2025 #5
The Council and Planning/Zoning Board JustAnotherGen May 2025 #42
I've been wondering why the city hasn't cut services to the facility already Arazi May 2025 #51
What kind of charges could be brought against him? i was a cathar... May 2025 #6
They are LYING JustAnotherGen May 2025 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2025 #41
Welcome to DU orangecrush May 2025 #12
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This message was self-deleted by its author NJCher May 2025 #45
He was across the street. Lordy, there's video. Scrivener7 May 2025 #46
He didn't storm the facility. They opened the gate to Ilsa May 2025 #49
They don't know what they've done. JustAnotherGen May 2025 #7
They should be careful in NJ who they unlawfully arrest. Jit423 May 2025 #18
Oh yes we are JustAnotherGen May 2025 #36
Multiple people from my neighborhood, about an hour away, were making plans to Scrivener7 May 2025 #47
I agree JustAnotherGen May 2025 #53
Can you even believe we're having these conversations? Scrivener7 May 2025 #54
Yes - hear me out JustAnotherGen May 2025 #55
"The mayor is being held at the facility"? orangecrush May 2025 #10
Menendez? You mean Andy Kim? nt SouthBayDem May 2025 #11
Robert Menendez Jr JustAnotherGen May 2025 #38
No, the mayor. nt Ilsa May 2025 #50
"How is this acceptable?" red dog 1 May 2025 #13
They look more like Rambos than real police officers LiberalArkie May 2025 #21
. littlemissmartypants May 2025 #24
The ICE agents were reportedly VIOLENT during the arrest Wicked Blue May 2025 #16
The Trump administration is trying it best to rip NJ a new one. Air Ports, this. I imagine because Christy would not LiberalArkie May 2025 #20
Christie is old news JustAnotherGen May 2025 #39
We are not holding Maga supporters accountable oldmanlynn May 2025 #22
Thinking of going to Newark to protest tomorrow if they don't release him. Scrivener7 May 2025 #27
It appears they have and I am still in. Prairie_Seagull May 2025 #52
They're holding him at the ICE facility?! LauraInLA May 2025 #30
They were but they just released him. The whole incident is horrifying. Scrivener7 May 2025 #33
Probably water boarding him by now. orangecrush May 2025 #44
If the media wasn't talking about this tonight they would be talking about GoodRaisin May 2025 #31
They just released him. This is off the chain. Scrivener7 May 2025 #32
It was a pushing match, a scrum Red Mountain May 2025 #34
What bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bdamomma May 2025 #35
Straight up NAZI shit. B.See May 2025 #40

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
9. In due time
Fri May 9, 2025, 05:10 PM
May 2025

Regime falls - we treat them just like the world treated the Gestapo and SS.

They are going to get it - and get it good.

America will not be the same on the other side of this.

TomSlick

(12,868 posts)
15. I don't disagree but local LEOs confronting federal LEOs would be fraught.
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:14 PM
May 2025

Local LEOs confronting feds would be an excuse for invoking the Insurrection Act.

Added on Edit: I've had an idea. Local LEOs should demand the supposed federal LEOs provide their identification to prove they are feds. If they do not comply, arrest them for impersonating law enforcement and any other charge creative minds can imagine.

dchill

(42,660 posts)
19. I'd say we're already on the other side of fraught.
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:25 PM
May 2025

And I completely agree with making them identify themselves.

NJCher

(42,311 posts)
4. I met him two weekends ago
Fri May 9, 2025, 04:54 PM
May 2025

Ras, I mean. He is running for governor and came to speak to our teacher's union.

I will tell you one thing: I get impressions of people and this guy left a very strong impression on me. He knows how to handle himself and he will handle himself just fine in this situation. If I had to place a bet on who is coming out of this situation smelling like a rose, it's Ras.

And I hate to say this because it's not going to sound right, but he is one tough SOB. They are no match for him. Just watch.

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
37. I was so impressed with him at our convention
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:01 PM
May 2025

I was going to pull names for the primary - was down to him and Fulop. Just a gut feeling that these two could fill Phil's very big DEFIANT shoes. I've landed Ras.

sop

(17,280 posts)
5. The mayor should shut down everything connected to the facility: power, water, sewage, city roads, block it all off.
Fri May 9, 2025, 04:58 PM
May 2025

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
42. The Council and Planning/Zoning Board
Fri May 9, 2025, 08:11 PM
May 2025

Need to call emergency meetings. Emergency the could have it as a joint meeting Sunday night (municipal law in NJ - must be noticed).

I believe the municipal governing body when they say the facility wasn't authorized. Did the fire Marshall do their safety check. Does the building meet code? Did they sewer and water reserved?

Arazi

(8,682 posts)
51. I've been wondering why the city hasn't cut services to the facility already
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:31 AM
May 2025

Perhaps there’s vulnerable people inside?

Obviously the thugs wouldn’t care if the people they’re holding suffered

 
6. What kind of charges could be brought against him?
Fri May 9, 2025, 04:59 PM
May 2025

They said he stormed the facility. There were others arrested too.

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
8. They are LYING
Fri May 9, 2025, 05:09 PM
May 2025

They are violation of Zoning and do not have approval from Council to operate that facility. That's now how things are done in NJ.

They are going to learn.

Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #8)

Response to orangecrush (Reply #12)

Response to i was a cathar... (Reply #6)

Ilsa

(63,780 posts)
49. He didn't storm the facility. They opened the gate to
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:24 AM
May 2025

let him in (Rep. Menendez and two other congresspersons were inside waiting to take an inspection tour). Then they told him he had to leave and he walked out.

Jit423

(1,568 posts)
18. They should be careful in NJ who they unlawfully arrest.
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:24 PM
May 2025

A different kind of citizen lives in NJ...they will protect their rights one way or another.

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
36. Oh yes we are
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:59 PM
May 2025

I moved down from Western NY in 2006. Observations:

Don't tell us what to do.
Mind your own damn business.
Insurgent spirit.

Scrivener7

(58,138 posts)
47. Multiple people from my neighborhood, about an hour away, were making plans to
Sat May 10, 2025, 07:12 AM
May 2025

go join the protest today. The group arose spontaneously. And I'm sure we're not the only pack planning to do so.

They'd have had a real jam on their hands today if they didn't release him.

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
53. I agree
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:03 AM
May 2025

I will be at The League of Municipalities this November and a strategy of Home Rule must be a topic of discussion.

JustAnotherGen

(37,476 posts)
55. Yes - hear me out
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:02 AM
May 2025

We knew this was all going to happen. It was laid out in project 2025. Stephen Miller is the puppet master. He is what he is.

Black women tried to tell the country - but no one wanted to hear it.

This is a told you so moment.

It's sad - but I anticipated this country of Intolerable Acts.

LiberalArkie

(19,210 posts)
21. They look more like Rambos than real police officers
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:35 PM
May 2025

Where are the Sig Sauer or Glock? Guy in the back with double side arms? There Jan 6 guys, the reason Trump released them?

Wicked Blue

(8,409 posts)
16. The ICE agents were reportedly VIOLENT during the arrest
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:15 PM
May 2025

From NJ.com:

"After a struggle, ICE agents physically dragged Baraka through the gate and placed him in handcuffs before leading him toward the entrance to a building at the facility."

https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/05/ice-officers-arrest-newark-mayor-outside-immigrant-detention-center.html

LiberalArkie

(19,210 posts)
20. The Trump administration is trying it best to rip NJ a new one. Air Ports, this. I imagine because Christy would not
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:32 PM
May 2025

bend the knee and kiss the ring..

Chris Christie predicts 'huge personnel problem' if Trump is reelected to 'vendetta presidency'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chris-christie-predicts-huge-personnel-problem-trump-reelected/story?id=106971895

oldmanlynn

(770 posts)
22. We are not holding Maga supporters accountable
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:40 PM
May 2025

They could stop all this if they started raising their voice quite a bit

Prairie_Seagull

(4,588 posts)
52. It appears they have and I am still in.
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:33 AM
May 2025

Masked unidentifiable ICE agents arresting a Mayor to be held in a for profit ICE detention CAMP.
Worth the flight and fight.

IMO

GoodRaisin

(10,697 posts)
31. If the media wasn't talking about this tonight they would be talking about
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:35 PM
May 2025

Trump retreating on his tariffs.

Red Mountain

(2,247 posts)
34. It was a pushing match, a scrum
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:37 PM
May 2025

as they tried to arrest him.

Anybody close enough to one of these 'law' enforcement officers ought to pull down a mask.

You don't hide your face and identity if you are doing the right thing.

bdamomma

(69,134 posts)
35. What bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:47 PM
May 2025

Masked ICE agents?????? That is the problem right there. No ID's???? WTF??? Donny 2 dolls and his J-6 posse.

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