{"id":737,"date":"2026-05-31T05:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:44:26","slug":"after-n-j-governors-call-for-calm-protesters-clash-with-police-at-delaney-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"After N.J. Governor&#8217;s Call for Calm, Protesters Clash With Police at Delaney Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Protesters and the New Jersey State Police faced off outside a Newark immigration detention center late Saturday, hours after Gov. Mikie Sherrill urged demonstrators to remain peaceful after an overnight confrontation that led to multiple arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=735\">China factory activity stalls in May as demand weakens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Officers in riot gear formed shield lines outside the Delaney Hall detention center, while mounted troopers and officers on foot worked to push demonstrators back. Protesters pressed against police barricades and shields, wielded makeshift shields of their own and at times struggled with officers for control of metal fencing. Police later deployed tear gas and flash-bang grenades as they sought to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, at an afternoon news conference at a New Jersey State Police station in Newark, Sherrill said that demonstrators must \u201cbring the temperature down\u201d to avoid escalating immigration enforcement operations and endangering the lives of detainees and other immigrants in the state.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what ICE has done in other states,\u201d Sherrill said, standing beside the state\u2019s attorney general and several law enforcement officials. \u201cI refuse to let that happen in New Jersey. I will not give ICE a pretext to expand operations at Delaney Hall or across our state. I will not put lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The admonition Saturday followed the scuffle between protesters and state police late Friday night outside Delaney Hall, which has for the past week been the site of tense protests over living conditions at the facility.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>That standoff with about 50 protesters resulted in the arrest of six demonstrators, four of whom had traveled from New York and one from Pennsylvania. State police had assumed control of the area after negotiating the withdrawal of federal agents in hopes of restoring order. However, tension mounted when demonstrators ignored repeated orders to move to a designated protest area, authorities said, prompting the deployment of a public safety response team after a crowd surrounded a law enforcement vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Sherrill said the troopers\u2019 actions had been \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d to ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents did not swarm the area outside Delaney Hall. She criticized the intrusion of \u201cextremist groups\u201d and demonstrators from outside the state, who she said had been interfering in the protests and distracting from the ultimate goal of improving conditions inside the detention center, and eventually closing it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the people coming from out of state to create chaos and dangerous situations, you should not be here,\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cYou are not helping the people detained at Delaney Hall, you are not helping detainee families and you\u2019re certainly not keeping New Jersey safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=733\">China factory activity stalls in May as demand weakens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The flare-ups followed a week of tense encounters between protesters and federal agents outside the troubled detention center.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The groups have clashed frequently, with protesters sometimes taunting federal agents and the agents, in turn, tackling demonstrators, spraying chemical irritants and, in at least one case, beating a protester with a baton across the torso, thighs, knee and calves as he tried to flee.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, some members of a group of demonstrators were arrested, and Thursday night, a 26-year-old man from Morris County bit two agents who were attempting to remove him during a scuffle outside the facility, authorities said. The man, Brendan John Geier, was charged in New Jersey federal court Friday with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury. He was later released with limitations and barred from returning to Delaney Hall.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Geier could not immediately be reached Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Relatives of detainees and immigrant advocates have said that detainees inside the facility were beaten and doused with pepper spray this past week after some inmates began a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has denied that there was a hunger strike. The agency also said that there had been a fight involving detainees inside the detention center and that jail staff had broken it up. Officials said that detainees who had been affected had been evaluated by medical workers and that no one had been seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Sherrill said her focus remained on gaining full access to Delaney Hall for the members of her administration, restoring visitation for families and ensuring that detainees received proper medical care.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t let what\u2019s happening outside Delaney Hall take us away from that mission,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=731\">Japan refutes \u2018new militarism\u2019, accuses China of rapidly arming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2026 The New York Times Company<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters and the New Jersey State Police faced off outside a Newark immigration detention center l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After N.J. 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