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As New Jersey Gov.Mikie Sherrillblamed out-of-state agitators for unrest outside Newark’s Delaney Hall detention facility, critics pointed to the limited police presence around the site in the days leading up to the clashes.
�s time on scene at Delaney Hall through Thursday of last week, there were few, if any, visits by marked New Jersey State Police vehicles — an agency under Sherrill’s control.Likewise, Newark Mayor Ras J.Baraka’s hands-off sanctuary city policies were evident in the scarcity of Newark police cruisers around the facility.
Nonetheless, on Saturday, Sherrill said five of six people arrested Friday were from Pennsylvania and New York – the latter just a few miles from the protest.
That was not enough for critics, as the leading Republican seeking to challenge Delaney Hall critic Sen.Cory Bookerin November called out Sherrill for trying to take credit for fixing a problem that should not have existed to begin with.
WATCH: POLICE ABSENT FROM DELANEY HALL CHAOS AS AGITATORS BLOCK ICE VEHICLES AND AGENTS USE PEPPER SPRAY
ICE agents clash with protesters outside Delaney Hall east of downtown Newark, N.J., on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
“Governor Sherrill, you are an arsonist complaining about the fire you helped start.Delaney Hall is under siege,” investigative journalistAlex Zdan said of the Democrat in a statement.
Zdan, who listsborder securityand better oversight of Big Pharma as his top issues, is considered the frontrunner in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary to take on Booker — who notably preceded Baraka as mayor.
“Our brave state troopers are in harm’s way, and all you can do is complain to the media about outside agitators?Who asked them to go there, Governor?” Zdan went on.
“Who was told it was a moral duty to descend on Delaney Hall and assault our brave ICE agents and troopers?You, Andy Kim, and Cory Booker.This is your mess.Own it.Restore order now.”
The Department of Justice announced charges against a 27-year-old accused of shouting epithets at ICE personnel and threatening to murder an officer and his family after allegedly obtaining the officer’s identity, telling him he “ha[d] your face.”
Nicholas Matthew Scelfo appears to have ties to both New Jersey and New York.The FBI said agents raided his Morristown home, while a DOJ charging document described him as being “of Brooklyn.”
FBI ARRESTS PROTESTER WHO THREATENED TO KILL ICE OFFICER’S FAMILY AT NJ DETENTION CENTER PROTEST, BLANCHE SAYS
A protester gets treated after being hit with pepper spray outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J.)
Homeland SecurityInvestigations (HSI) Newark Special Agent in Charge Spiros Karabinas said the incident was not an example of protected protest, as “calling for murder of a federal law enforcement officer and his family is not speech safeguarded by the Constitution;it is a grave criminal offense that will not be tolerated.”
� one conducting a checkpoint near Roanoke Avenue under the Pulaski Skyway and the other near New Jersey Transit’s Ironbound bus garage, which lies just south of Delaney Hall on then-agitator-ridden Doremus Avenue.
By the weekend, however, Sherrill’s police were out in force with riot gear, including mounted officers among their ranks.A video shared on social media Monday showed one man approaching officers outside the Ironbound garage and taking a seat on the curb while mouthing off to police, who let him vent for a moment before quickly detaining him and pulling him behind the line of riot-shielded officers.
Outside agitators were, however, among those whoNew Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport has suggested most agitators had been peaceful until now while condemning a group wearing gas masks and helmets that “deliberately refused to comply with orders” and put the public “at risk.”
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Sen.Andy Kim, D-N.J., stand outside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center during a protest on May 25, 2026.(Governor Mikie Sherrill)
However, in another statement over the weekend, she characterized the group as “overwhelmingly peaceful protesters who have been shining a light on the troubling conditions at Delaney Hall.”
“We will continue to protect theconstitutional rightto peaceably protest, and we denounce any violent conduct that interferes with peaceful protesting,” Davenport said.
Efforts to reach Baraka and Essex County Sheriff Amir Jones prior to state police arrival were unsuccessful.
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Sherrill’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.
�fully closed” and that federal authorities will continue to prosecute suspects who obstruct proceedings, as ICE had to repeatedly rebuff angry agitators who leaped into action every time a federal vehicle or transport van appeared on Doremus Avenue.
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