U.S. Sen. Andy Kim said he was pepper-sprayed outside Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where protesters had gathered amid a hunger strike by detainees and growing calls from Democratic officials to close the facility.
The confrontation unfolded on Memorial Day outside the privately run detention center, where demonstrators said federal agents used pepper spray and batons during a clash near the facility. ABC reported that the confrontation began around 1 a.m., after relatives and advocates gathered in support of detainees participating in a hunger strike.
