detention center where detainees have been on hunger strikes and protests the situation right now

is very intense i want to go to our reporter laura hayfully laura uh you have i can tell it from the

fact that you're coughing right now it's either a pepper spray or or tear gas has been deployed around

you yeah it's hard to tell which one is which sometimes, but everything happened really quickly.

So throughout the day, there were protesters outside of Delaney Hall in Newark, the ICE facility.

They've been here for a week.

As the evening hours went on, the protest crowd grew, and so did the crowd of state police officers.

And then eventually we saw what were lines of state police officers. And then eventually we saw what were

lines of state police officers holding shields. They had helmets on. They were carrying zip ties.

And they sort of formed a bit of a wall. And they began walking down De Remus Avenue, which runs in

front of the facility. And they were doing this as a typical tactic that these departments use to disperse protesters who refuse to leave.

And they started walking, and they were actually something I haven't seen on horseback as well.

So you had people holding shields. You had people on horseback as well. So you had people holding shields.

You had people on horseback.

And you know out here in the field, safety is our priority.

As soon as they started walking and we realized things were getting a little more intense,

we started to back up as quickly as possible.

And it escalated like that.

All of a sudden, they were shooting what sounded like less than lethal ammunition.

It's hard to tell exactly what it was.

They were shooting towards protesters and therefore towards us.

They were shooting into the sky.

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