Angry crowd in NYC protests Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest at ICE detention center

Approximately 100 rowdy demonstrators gathered successful Lower Manhattan Saturday to protestation nan arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka astatine an ICE installation this week.

The agitators held signs successful Foley Square reference “No ICE, nary DOGE, nary authorities terror,” and “ICEstapo must go!” and astatine slightest 1 appeared to hound and travel a protagonist of President Trump who showed up arsenic a counter-protest.

Elected officials, including Democratic mayoral campaigner authorities Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and socialist NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, besides spoke.

Mamdani attempted to nexus immoderate of his opponents for City Hall to nan president.

“For nan Trump Administration, conscionable for illustration Mayor Eric Adams, conscionable for illustration Andrew Cuomo, nan rule is simply a suggestion,” Mamdani whined while addressing nan crowd.

“We will guidelines up for nan group that those laws protect, and we will do truthful each and each day, and we will do truthful astatine each and each juncture, because what nan Trump Administration is looking for is support to support rolling those authorities back, and astatine each attempt, we will beryllium there, we will conflict them, and we will conclusion them,” he continued. 

Socialist NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams besides slammed nan president, bellowing into a blowhorn, “This management is an embarrassment.”

The protestation came little than 24 hours aft Baraka was arrested, past released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention halfway astatine Delaney Hall.

The Newark Mayor wants nan ICE installation unopen down.

“We cognize we’re right. What we inquire for is correct,” he told supporters Friday nighttime aft he was released.