Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents while participating in a riot outside of an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday.
Instead of spending Memorial Day honoring our fallen troops, Kim joined the rioters attacking law enforcement alongside New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver and Nellie Pou.
Masked leftist rioters were seen vandalizing the city and removing large blocks from the sidewalks to set upbarricadesoutside of the Delaney Hall Detention Center to block vehicles leaving the facility. In multipleclipscirculating online, the insurrectionists could be seen searching through the vehicles with flashlights before allowing them to pass.
Kim was seen at one point attempting to negotiate with the insurrectionists, asking them to stop throwing things at vehicles and to clear a path in the parking lot. Kim is then seen apologizing to the protesters and instigating further unrest after ICE agents pushed through the crowds.
“I don’t trust them,” Kimtold the left-wing riotersafter blaming ICE for failing to make a “deal.”
Pepper spray and pepper balls were later deployed during aclashbetween agents and rioters. Kim was seenscreamingat agents on an armored truck as they used crowd control measures.
Video from the sceneshowsprotesters pouring water into Kim’s eyes following the incident.
In a statement later, Kim described the conditions at the detention center as “chaos,” claiming that the violent leftists were simply “families and advocates” of the illegal alien detainees, who were “calling for help.”
He further blasted ICE agents, accusing them of “lawlessness” and calling for the ICE detention center to be shut down.
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
