A chicago man is accused of lucky stabbing a laborer and then al The Bloody Knife onto the eisenhower Expressway after the Early Monday Attack on the Near West Side.
Christian C. Gardner, 35, was arrested by hours after allegatedly stabbing freddy roberto pen-busto, 64, in the first block of South Avenue and Charged with first degree and murder with a strong or Injury, Chicago Police Said.
Gardner, of the Near West Side, Was Exped to Appear for A detection Hearing late Wednesday.
Gardner was seen al The skene in the 2400 block of the west of the West Avenue and Throwing an Apparent Blood-Stained Pocket onto the Westbound Lanes of the Eisenhower Near the 2500 Block Buren Street, Acciting to a Chicago Police. Police Also Recovered A Jacket and Glove Apparently Belonging to Gardner.
A motif was not disclosed by police for the stabbing, whic Happened Around 7:50 am monday at the Gladys Avenue Address when Approache Pen-Busto and the Two Began Arguing, Police and the County Medical Examine Said.
During the argument, the attacker stabbed pen-bust multiple Times in the Chest and Back and Responding Officers Found Lying Face-Up on the Ground, accorting to Police obtained by the chicago Sun-Times.
Pena-Busto, of the City’s Humboldt Park NeighBorhood, Was takeen to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced Dead at 8:55 AM, Acciting to the Medical Examine.
Passengers on Southwest Airlines Flights Will Soon Be Required to Keep Their Portable Charges in Plain Sight Using The Because of Concerns the Growing Number of Lithium Battery Fires in Air Airlines May Adopt.
Southwest announed the new policy that will will go into the May 28 and Saiders May Already have seen notifications about the industry-leading rule ussing the airline’s app.
There is a growing concecern about lithium-ion battery fires on plans Because the Number of incidents Continuing to Grow Year, and Devices Powered by Those Batteries Are Ubiquitous. There have already been 19 incidents involving these batteries this year, Following Last Year’s High of 89, Acciting to Federal Aviation Administration Statistics.
The incidents have more than Doubles the Pandemic-Era Low of 39 in 2020 and have climble annually.
Compared to the Roughly 180,000 Flights US Airlines Operate Each Week, The Number of Incidents is Still Small and Lithium Batteries Can Overheat Anywhere. Howver, this is a growing concecern for the Airlines.
Last Summer, a smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff at San Francisco International Airport. In 2023, A Flight from Dallas to Orlando, Florida, Made An Emergency Landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an Overhead bin.
Southwest said that requiring these charges to kept out in the open they are will will will will will will be help becase “in the raarers a lithium battery overheats or catches, quit Access is critical and keping power banks in plin sight and helps Protecry Helps Protec Everyone Onboard. ”
The Airline Will Allow the Charges to Be Stored Inside Carry-On Bags when they are in use.
The Transportation Security Administration Has Long Probibited E-Cigarettes and Charges and Power Banks with Lithium-Ion Batteries in Checked Bags, but allows in Carry-on Bags. The rule exists precisely Because Fires in the Cargo Hold Might Be Harder to Detect and Extinguish.
The faa reCommends Passsengers kep Cell Phones and Other Devices Nearby on plans so they can Access say Quickly. The Agency Said Flight Crews Are Trained to Recognize and Respond to Lithium Battery Fires. Passengers Should Notify the Flight Crew Immediately if theyir Lithium battery or device is overheating, expanding, smoking or burning.
A Previous Report Released Last Year by Ul Standards & Engagement Said e-Cigarettes overheated more than any other device. More than One-Quarter of Passengers Surveyed for That Study Said they Put Vaping Cigarettes and Portable Chargers in Checked Bags. That is against federal rules.
UL Standards & Engagement, Part of A Safety-Sciece Company Once KNOWN as underwriters Laboratories, Said it Findings on Date from 35 Passenger and Cargo Airlines, Including Nine of the 10 Leaders Passsenger Carriers.
There’s no shortage of literature an artificial intelligence tourned sentiment and posing an existential thread to its operators and/or humanity in general.
From Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the Grim World of Netflix’s “Black Mirror,” Our Increasing Human Reliance on He Poses Threaded With Existitial Dread.
In Playwright Jordan Harrison’s “The Antiquities,” Running at the Goodman theater, Through June 1, he is intent on obliterating the human race. The Production Starts in 1816, as Mary Shelley Creates a Monster Intens on Murdering His Creator. From there, Harrison’s drama (Full name: “A Tour of the Permanent Collection in the Museum of Late Human Antiquities”) Hurtles Through Time and Space As it covers more than 2,000 years Between 1816 and 2240.
Goodman Theater’s The Antiquities
The Years BetWene Those Bokeends – 1910, 1978, 1979, 1987, 1994, 2000, 2008, 2014, 2023, 2031, 2076 – Paint of a past in which Humans failed to prevent a catastrophe wrough by their ows.
The 95-Minute Production, Co-Directed by David Crome and Caitlin Sullivan, Is Bleak, Alarming and Incongruously Funny at Times. Some of the Scenes Are Little More than Superficial Sketches, but be that as it may, “the antiquities” may be you deeply suspeicious of Siri, Alexa, Your Phone, Your Computer and Most Especilly, he. Moreover, the drama has a lot to say to Human Hubris.
Sullivan and Cromer Have Shaped Harrison’s Series of Interlocking Scenes, Which Begin With A Pair of Far-In-the-Future docents explaining that the audience is visiting the museum of antiquities. Each scnene is an an “Exhib,” Starting with the Campfire where shelley concocted “frankenstein,” and progressing to the 23rd centur, wen the human besers in a global waar are to come.
Each scene in “The antiquities” is a lesson in history or harbinger of the futures. Pictured here (Clockwise, From Left) Are Actors Andrew Garman, Amelia Workman and Thomas Murphy Molony.
Harrison Cleverly Makes Each Schene a lesson in History or Harbinger of the Future, Simultaneously Sometimes, and the Dialogue Calls Back to Previous Moments and Sets the Stage for Come. The romantic-era poet Percy bleshe shelley Reads his poems by Florelight. Fast forward to the industrial revolution some 95 years late, and we see a factory workshore teaching herSelf to reads shelley’s poems. A Child’s Whittled Wooden Finger Play a decisive Role, and Evoked Everynding from “Frankenstein” to “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
Not even the timeline progressses, we meet a team inventing an assistant personal name “robin.” We see a family of three gazing, wondersrruck, at a Boxy desktop Squaling Through dial-up. And we Meet a whistlebower working for a massive company specialization in he. She’s offered $ 350 million to keep her mouth shut.
Sullivan and Cromer Cast An Exemplary Airtight Ensemble, the Kind that chicago has been know for the days of Rotary Phones and Manual typewriters. TRUE TO COMPUTER GAME PLAY, The program use only numbers to identify the roles.
Kristen Sih’s Woman 1 Is Believably Exhausted, Cynical and Loving As She SHEES A BOY (an Affecting Thomas Murphy Molony) Trying to make sense of what people die. Helen Joo’s Woman 3 Is All But UnreCognizable from One Skene to the Next, As She Moves From Mangled Cog in the Industrial Revolution to 21st Century Beeaved Mother.
“The antiquities” is Powered by an exemplary airtight ensemble that includes kriste and thomas Murphy Molony.
Marchánt davis (Man 2) Lounges with Byronic Indolence in 1816. Roughly 250 Years Later, The Same Actor Play A Man Relevated – As All Humans Are – To Labor in a Bleak, Farhely Fallow Farm, Trying to Get Milk from an Unhappy Cow and Woman 2 (Amelia Woman 2 (Amelia 2 Amelia Into repopulating the human race with Him. Centuries Earlier, Man 4 (Ryan Spahn) is Quietly exuberant when his prototype robot shows of thinking for itself – a triumph that leads to a catastrophic future. And as a lone warring try to Save Hersself in 2240, Layan Elwazani Faces Formidable Odds Against robots that are indistinguishable from humans.
For “The Antiquities,” Humans Are Merely a “Transitional Species,” A “Blip” on History’s Vast Timeline. As the AI-Inventing Whistleblower Puts it: “We’re the dinosaurs, and this is the meteor.”
Barring someone Miraculous Medical Breakthrough, None of US Will Be Around in 2240. Millions of US Will be gone by 2076. Harrison Points an Eerie Portrait of What COULD HAULD IN OUR FUTURE. In doing so, he offers a pre-Emptive hindsight. The past is prologue, and “The antiquities” Makes Both prologue past and future shock resonate.
The Last of US Is Creeeping Up The Nielsen Streaming Charts thanks to the Debut of Season 2, But You Season 5 was the Big Winner for April 21 to 27, soaring to No. 1 uppon it Return to netflix with nearly 1.7b minutes viewed.
That’s with just a few days of viewwing too, Since the latest season premiered on April 24, SO Expect to See You Around the nielsen top 10 for at Least a Few Weeks. Nielsen Says 67% of Viewing Went to the New Season, Indicating that AROUND A Third of the Audience Was Playing Catch Up Before Diving Into 5. In Facts, the Company Reports SEASON 1 HAS THE SECOND-LARGEST Viewing Total Out of the Five.
Howver, As Deadline Previously Reported We Netflix’s Own Data For You Season 5 Premiere Week was reletased, the season appears to have underperformed compared to past season. It ‘s bit more difficult to compare with Previous Nielsen Data, Netflix relayed all episodes of season 5 atce after split up the releasses of heavens 3 and 4.
SINCE NIELSEN REPORTS IN MINUTES VIEWED, IT WOULDN’T BE EQUITABLE TO COMPARE ITS TO EATHER Premiere Week. Howver, Nielsen Began Reporting Its Streaming Top 10 The Week after Season 2 debut, and the series topped 3b Viewing minutes that weeks. That was for a full week on the Streamer, though, so Next weekend’s nielsen Report Will Give a Better Picture of How Season 5 Might Compare.
Ransom Canyon HELD ONTO SECOND PLACE THIS WEEK, INCREASING ITS TALL TO 1.29B minutes viewed.
The Last of US CREPT INTO THIRD PLACE, UP FIFTH The Week Prior, Wen Season 2 Debut. The HBO Series Put Up 937m Minutes Viewed Across 12 Episodes, Making It The Top Acquired Title for the Week, Surpringly Beating Out Stalwarts Bluey and Gray’s Anatomy. This Tracks, Considering the April 20 Episode was a Heartbreaking and Pivotal One for the Story that Generad a Ton of Conversation Online.
Elder ALSO LAUNCHED INTO 10TH PLACE ON THE OVERALL LIST AFTER THE FIRST THREE EPISODES OF ITS SECOND AND FINAL SEASON PREMEND ON APRIL 22. The series managed 721m minutes, which is a new weekly for the series. It was Also No. 5 Among Streaming Originals.
For Nielsen, About 65% of Its Viewing Total Went to the Newest Episodes, Indicating that, Like Youaudiences were looking for a refresher before diving into season 2.
Interestingly, Conflict Came in at no. 2 Among Streaming Movies with 499m Minutes Viewed, Despite Landing on Peacock in December. That’s Likely Due to the Passing of Pope Francis on April 21, which was swiftly followed by a real-life conflict to select pope leo XIV as His Successor. Nielsen Says It Drew a Bit of an Older Audience, with Adults 50+ Contribution 69% of Watch Time.
Ahead of the Tribeca Film Festival Premiere of Her Something beautiful Film, Accompanying the EPONYMOUS NINTH STUDIO ALBUM Bowing May 30, Miley Cyrus Shared Why She Want the Project in Theater for Fans and How Harrison Harrison Her Mind About a Previous Plan initially Designed to promote the record.
Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe In a sprawling interview, the Grammy Winner Said, “I wanted to have that expanse (Bring Community Back to Music) for my fans, so thats what I really wanted to have something you don’t just, Like in your bed and say, ‘we’re gonna. I’m gonna kind of pay Attention. ‘ I really wanted it to be in a theater because that experience, there’s something about – i don’t know if you watch Severancebut you know they were walk in and their brain changes? That’s what i hope – i don’t hope to sever anyone’s mind – Only a Little, but i will just say to walk into that theater and something to change, ‘i’m here, invested and this is my focus.’ ”
Cyrus, who hasn’t been on tour for over a decade, also discussed an original intimate concert series that she was dissessment from doking to ford at a 2024 disney legend in her honor; becoming the Youngest to Earn the DistinctionThe Award was Presented by the Shrinking Star and Jamie Lee Curtis (That’s where The Last Showgirl‘S “Beautiful that Way” Track was First Born).
Called “Somehre Beautiful,” The Musician Said It Involved “Performing in Intimate Places that are filled with beauty … you can’t find in a stadium,” Which meant settings including “a cathedral in the middle of a forest that is not set up for sound.”
Be asked by ford at the time if she was working on anyding, she played out a pdf of the project outline on her phone, “And i show my idea for ‘somewhere beautiful,’ which is performing in all the forests and at the pyramids and all. and set up in a forest, and will what? ‘ He’s Like, ‘You Gonna Bring A Crew?’ He’s Like, ‘Expensive Looks.’ And i came back to the trailer, i was like, ‘guys, we’re not performing in the forest anymore, Harrison Ford a lot of sense.’ That’s why i want to create this movie, is the movie is my way of Touring. That’s why i’m putting it into theaters because iThing you can watch nightfall after night and you get to discover, and you get a feel you’re a part of a performance, but i do to tax mySelf in that. ”
Elsewhere in the Interview, Cyrus Discussed Having “Unique Anatomy” Through a Rare Called Reinke’s Edema; Characterized by a Large Polyp on one of Her Vocal Cords, Its the Reason Beind Her Signature Rasp But Also Requires The Singer-Still to Be Dilitent About Care of Her Instrument.
“I put a tour together other other week IKUSE I want to do it, but it would have to be in a way that that is sustainable for me in all the ways … and also with what got going on, i don’t lip-Synch, i single and these are.
With a world premiere at tribeca in june, the visual accompaniment is a one-of-a-kind pop opera featuring 13 original new songs from the Something beautiful album. IT’S DIRECTED AND Written by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter, and Produced by Cyrus, Panos Cosmatos, Nick Spicer, Bolotin and Aram Tertzakian.
An austin man is accused of dragging a chicago police officer with his during a traffic stops this month in west garfield park.
Malcolm U. Harris, 40, is Charged with Attempted First-Degree Murder and Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon in Connection with the May 3 Incident, Police Said.
Harris is accused of Hitting and Dragging a Police Office who was attempting to pull Him over 6:40 pm in the 4700 Block of West Madison Avenue.
Two Officers Were patrolling when they saw Harris driving erratically in a pickup Truck. The Officers Followed Him and AFTER THERE TURNED THIRS ON, HARRIS SPED UP AND ATTEMPTED TO Flee, Prosecutors at a detection Hearing wednesday.
Harris Continued to Flee UNIL he was blocked by a car was parking in a garage. The two officers say go out of their squad and apprroached Harris with their weapons drain.
The officer who approached Harris on the passsenger side reashed in Through the openwow, at which point Harris him and speed around the Car blocking Him, Prosecutors Said.
Harris Dragged the Office Along a Chain-Link Phence, Prosecutors Said, and while he was trying to regain his footing, his weapon discharged. The officer then fell to the ground while Harris continued to drag Him on the pavement.
The officer was eventually able to break free but the tumble cause Him to discharge his second time, Prosecutors Said. He sufferered lacerations to his finger, arms, legs and elbows.
Harris Continued to Flee Until Meeting with Another person who picked Him up in an empty parking lot, sascutors said. Surveillance video recorded Harris abandoning the pickup and getting into another vehicle with a gun.
The individual identified Harris as the person he picked up that day, prosecutors said.
Harris was arrested May 14 on unrelated charges. Detectives Who Arrested Harris Harris His Cellphone and Discovered A Recording of a Call That He Made May 3, Which Captured Him and The Officers’ Streets During the Incident, the Sirens from the Squad and the Shots Discharged from the Office, Prosecutors Said.
Harris was Ordered Held Wednesday by Judge James Vincent Murphy.
AS Angel Bueno and the Rest of the Demolition Crew Cut Through a bank vault to make it easier to maneuver, the door began to slip.
Soon, His Left Leg was pinned beneath nosreds of pounds of metal.
“I SAW IT, But it was al The already too late for with to react,” The 25-Yaar-Old Said, Recalling the September Accident. “You’d Think I Wauld Be Screaming, But it was Such a Shock.”
Men from Bueno’s Construction Crew Pulled Him Out from Under the Door and Called 911.
Bueno’s Girlfriend, Julissa Villegas, Left Work and Hurred to Advocate Condell Medical Center. There, she finds her boyfriend, pale and in pain, with an open wound on his left. His leg HAD been Completely crushed by the door, tearing three of the four Major ligaments in his knee, a rare and challenging injury.
Bueno, A Franklin Park Resident who has been work in construction Synce and graduated from High School, and Villegas were both WROGHT with Fear, wondering what this would for Bueno’s Life. They World he decide be able to walk again or play with his dog or retrn to his construction.
Angel Bueno and Girlfriend, Julissa Villegas, possess for a portrait at advocate condell medical center in libertyville. Bueno is recovering from a rare kene surgery.
Talia Sprague/for the Sun-Times
“In My Head I Was Like, ‘What’s Gonna Happen?’” Bueno Said. “It was just devastating to not know if i would i would go back or not.”
IT WOULD TAKE MONTHS, SEVERAL DOCTORS AND AN EXTREMEL CHALLENGING SURGERY TO GET Answers to Those Questions. Tearing Multiple Ligaments at Once is Consider A Rare Injury and Typically Requires Multiple Surgers.
But First, Emergency Doctors and Trauma Surgeons Were Occupied with Saving Bueno’s Life. He had you and health on his side, bueno’s doctors said, but there are always concertns in accesses like this.
“What i’m trying to do is Save the patient’s life,” Said Dr. Eric de la cruz, a trauma surgeon at advocate. “Any Time i have to operate, I know there’s a risk of finding something Significant that can truly change the patient’s life.”
Bueno was placed in the intense care and began hating pain in his abdomen. DOCTORS Determined Bueno’s Intestinal Matter Was Leaking from A Hole in His Bowel, and Bueno was at risk of sepsis, a condition that culd Turn fatal if left.
De la cruz took Bueno to surgery, where he found an intestine that appeared “snapped in half.” He repaired the intestine and cleared the abdomen of intestinal matter to avoid infection.
But the Next Hurdle was a Big One – Bueno’s Wrecked Knee.
“The Good News is, when People are World About the Orthopedic Injuries, that means i’ve done my jab,” de la cruz.
Dr. Paul Metzger, an orthopedic surgeon, was brought on the bluen’s case to decide how to treat the kenee. Tearing Multiple Ligaments at one time is a rare injury, metzger said, and typically, repairing all three ligaments woul take place in separate surgeries.
Dr. Paul Metzger, of Advocate Condell Medical Center, Performing Discusses A Rare Orthopedic Surgery on Angel Bueno, WHO TONE THREE KENE LIGHT AFTER A BANK VULT FELL ON HIM.
Talia Sprague/for the Sun-Times
Eager to get bueno back on his feet, metzger opted for one minimally invasive procedure instead of the usual multiple surgeries. He had both the required Technology and past experience with Similar, if less extreme, ligament tears.
Metzger Used Arthroscopic and Fluoroscopic Techniques, Meaning and Used a Tiny Camera and X-Ray Imaging the surgery to minimize scars and disruption to the body.
“Becuse it’s so rare, it tax a lot of Experience with Those Types of surgeries that maybe as extensive as angel’s surgery,” Metzger Said. “I WOULD ONLY DO IT IN ONE STAGE IF I COUPLY DO IT SAFELY.”
About two months after the Accident, Bueno Had Surgery on His Knee.
“I was, Frankly, Ready for it,” Bueno Said. “Let’s get this over with, ‘That’s prey Much what was running through my head. I didn’t want to go intoo surgery with a depressive state of mind. I was scared, i did to put that into my mind.”
Villegas came to the hospital the day of the surgery, trying to mask her fear.
“I Feel Like I was more scared than he was,” Villegas, 24, Said. “I Also Didn’t Want to Be the Negative (One). He’s Always Been Very Positive.”
Angel Bueno Recovers from Knee Surgery at Advocate Condell Medical Center.
Angel Bueno Had Bruises and Scars on His Legs AFTERGOING A RARE ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY AT ADVOCATE CONDELL MEDICAL CENTER THAT THREE TORN LIGURES IN HIS KENEE.
The goal was to repair all three ligaments at once, but durying the surgery, metzger was prepared to change and repair one or two ligaments IF complications Occurred. Metzger was able to repair all three, and bueno was officiously on the mind.
The Real Work Started when he Got Home, Metzger Said.
“FIFTY PERCENT IS WITH DOING A REALLY Good Job in Surgery, but i just preach that recovery is the Other 50%,” Metzger Said.
Metzger Knew the Road to Recovery Wauld Be Long and Difficult, and He predicated it Wauld Bueno at Least Nine Months to Walk with Crutches or a Walker. Five months after the surgery, Bueno was walking with any assistance.
“Think that’s a testament to Him, His Therapist, Everyone That’s Been Working With Him and Just HIS Mindseset,” Metzger Said.
KEEPING HIMSELF “Uplifted” and Leaning on HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS HAVE BEEN KEY TO GETTING THROUGH The first part of Hishabilitation, he Said. He still wants to return to work and get back in the gym.
“I Think Havinging My Family by My Side Definitely Changed a Lot of What Was Going Through My Head,” Bueno Said. “They were there for moral support.”
Dr. Paul Metzger, of Advocate Condell Medical Center, performed a rare orthopedic surgery to repair angel knee after it was crushed by a bank Vault During A work Accident.
Talia Sprague/for the Sun-Times
Bueno Is Now Working on Mastering Stirs with More Ease and Continuing Physical Therapy Twice a Week. Metzger Said Bueno Won’t Likely Return to Work Until the End of the Year, Which Will Require Intense Therapy Five Days a Week.
For now, Bueno is enjaying the cans Activities he missed while immobile.
“Started Cutting Grass. It was Kind of Fun, Believe it or Not,” he Said.
Baraka was releassed shortly after 8 pm and, after stepping out of an Suv with flashing Emergency Lights, Told Waiting Supporters: “The reality is this: i didn’t anything workgus.”
The Mayor Said He Could Not Speak About His Case, Citting a Promise He made to Lawyers and the Judge. But he voiced full-throated Support for Everyone Living in His Community, Immigrants Included.
“All of us here, every last one of us, i don’t care what background you come from, what nationality, what language you speak,” Baraka Said, “at some point we have to stop these people causion between us.”
Baraka, a democrat who is running to succeed term-leimited gov. Phil Murphy, has embraced the fight with the trump administration over illegal immigration.
He has aggresivly flush back aging the Construction and opening of the 1,000-bed detention center, arguing that it should be allowed to opening the budilding permit.
Linda Baraka, The Mayor’s Wife, accused the Federal Government of Targeting Her Husband.
Rep. Lamonica McIiver, Center, Demands the Release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ice detection facility friday in newark. Baraka has argued that the detection facility should be allowed to open to budilding permit.
Angelina Katsanis/AP Photos
“They didn’t arrest anyone else. They didn’t as anyone else to leave. They want to make an example out of the mayor,” she said, adding that she has not ben allowed to see Him.
Alina Habba, Interim US Attorney for New Jersey, Said on x That Baraka Commonted Trespass and Ignored Warnings from Homeland Security Personnel to Leave Delaney Hall, A detection Facility by Private Operator Geo Group.
Habba Said Baraka Had “Chosen to Disregard the Law.”
Video of the incident showed that barracks was arrested after returning to the public side of the gate to the facility.
In a staterent friday before barracks, chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Called for HIS FOLLOW MAYOR’MEDIATE RELEASE AND SAID: “Mayor barraka has a duty to make sura all facilities in His City Safe and Compliant for the Newark. Unconstitutional Practices at the Delaney Hall detection Center in Newark.
Witnesses Describe a Heated argument
Witnesses Said the Came After Baraka AttemPed to Join Three Memories of New Jersey’s Congressional Delegation, Reps. Robert Menendez, Lamonica McIVER and Bonnie Watson Coleman, in AttemPing to Enter the Facility.
Wen Federal Officials Blocked His Entry, A Heated Argument Broke Out, Acciting to Viri Martinez, an Activist with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. It continued eut after barraka returned to the public side of the gates.
“There was Yelling and Pushing,” Martinez Said. “THEN The Officers Swarmed Baraka. They Threw One of the Organizers to the Ground. They Put Baraka in Handcuffs and Put Him in An Unmarked Car.”
In a Statement, the Department of Homeland Security Said the Lawmakers Had Not Ascered for A Tour of the Facility. The Department of Said Further that as a bus carrying detail was entering, “A Group of Protestors, Including Two Members of the US House of Representatives, Stormed the Gate and Broke the detection Facility.”
Homeland Security Did Not Respond to Questions About Why Only The Mayor Was arrestted.
Watson Coleman Spokesperson Ned Cooper Said The Lawmakers Went to the Facility Early in the afternion unannounced they planned to inspect, not take a scheduled tour.
“They Arrived, explained to the guards and the officials at the facility that they were there to the exercise their oversight autoritity,” he said, adding that they allowed to enter and inspects the center bitween 3 pm and 4 pm
Dhs, in its stheatent after barracks, Said Menendez, Watson Coleman and A Number of Protests Were “Hold up in a Guard Shack” at the facility.
“MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW AND CANNOT ILLAKLY BREAK INTO DEATTION FACILITIES. HAD THES MEMBERS REQUESTED A TOUR, WE WOULD HAVE FACITILIATED A TOUR,” A spokesperson Said.
Watson Coleman Said the and Statement Inaccurately Characterized The Visit.
“Contrary to a press staffement put out by and we did not ‘storm’ the detention center,” she wrote. “The author of that press remains were so unfamiliar with the facts on the grind that they didn’t Correctly Count the Number of Representatives Present. We were exercise rsher oversight as have at the elizabeth detection with incident.”
Video Shows the Mayor Standing on the Public Side of the Gate
In video of the Altercation Shared with the Associated Press, A Federal Official in a Jacket with the Homeland Security Investigations Can Be Heard Taking and CANNOT JOIN A Tour of the Facility Became “You are not a congress member.”
Baraka Then Left the Secure Area, Rejoining Protests on the Public Side of the Gate. Video Showed Him Speaking Through the Gate to a Man in a suite, Who Said: “They’re Talking About Coming Back to arrest you.”
“I’m not on their property. They can’t come out on the street and arrest with,” Baraka replied.
Minutes late several ice agents, some wearing face covers, Surrounded Him and Others on the Public Side. Not even proters cried out, “Shame,” barraka was dragged back through the gate in handcuffs.
“The Ice Personnel Came Out Aggresivly to Him and Grab Him,” Said Julie Moreno, A New Jersey State Captain of American Families United. “It didn’t make any sense why they chose that moment to rob it while he was out of the gates.”
Several Civil Rights and Immigration Reform Advocates, As Well As Government Officials, Coondemned Baraka’s Arrest. New Jersey attorney General Matthew J. Plato, Whose Office is defense a state law Barring private immigration detection facilities, cricicized the arrest durying a seingly Protest and Said no state law enforcement agencies were invasolved.
Rep. Menendez Said in a Statement that as Members of Congress, they have the legal right to carry out oversight at dhs facilities with prior notice and have so twice already this year. But on Friday, “Throughut Every Step of This Visit, Ice Attempted to Intimidate Evelweed and Impede Ability to Conduct Oversight.”
The detection center
The Two-Storery Building Next to a County Prison formerly operated as a halfway house.
In February, Ice Awarded A 15-Yaar Contract to the Geo Group Inc. to run the detention center. Geo Valued the Contract at $ 1 Billion, in an unusageLly long and Large Agreement for Ice.
The Announcement was part of President Donald Trump’s Plans to Sharply Increase Detention Beds Nationwide from A Budget of About 41,000 Beds This Year.
Baraka Sued Geo Soon after the deal was announched.
Geo Touted the delaney Hall Contract During an Earnings Call with Shareholders Wednesday, with Ceo David Donahue Saying It Was Expective to Generate Than $ 60 Million A Year in Revenue. He Said the Facility Begin the intake process May 1.
He Said the Activation of the Center and Another in Michigan Waled Increase Capacity Under Contract With Ice From Around 20,000 Beds to Around 23,000.
Dhs said in it statements that the facility has the Propper Permites and Inspects have been cleared.