Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday for intrusions in a facility held on ice, known as the Left Progressor, who has a record with controversial celebrities.
Baraka, currently one of the top Democratic candidates for the governor of New Jersey, was arrested by Homeland Security personnel for his involvement in what the Department of Homeland Security calls “beyond strange political stunts.”
Currently, the prison holds so-called killers, MS-13 gang members and charged child rapists, as well as other criminal offenders.
Baraka, one of the main Democratic candidates for the governor of New Jersey, was arrested Friday for his involvement in the incident.
"Newark Mayor Ras Baraka committed the trespass and ignored multiple warnings from the Homeland Security Investigation to remove himself from the Ice Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey," Haba said. "He is willing to choose to ignore the law. This will not stand in that state. He has been detained. No one is above the law."
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Ras Baraka, the highest democratic candidate for governor, trespassed Friday in an ice-holding facility in Newark during protests. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig | Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
According to Baraka's campaign website, if elected to governor, he envisions "deconstructing the state budget and reassembling the North Star with fairness; seeing each decision as a step towards fairness or a step towards inequality."
In addition to pushing these controversial "equity" policies, Baraka has also been criticized for being associated with the records of suspicious figures, including Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and radical anti-Semitic missionary Louis Farrakhan.
When he first ran for mayor in 2014, Baraka was recognized by P. Diddy. He posted information about recognition on Facebook and posted another photo of himself in 2015 with the former rapper, saying, “It’s great to see you (P. Diddy)… Welcome you here anytime, anywhere!”
Baraka was also inspired by the video and Embrace Farrakhan After the speech, Islamic missionaries called whites "demons" and encouraged violence as retribution.
The video, filmed in 2004 at Newark Church, shows Baraka introducing Farrakhan to the congregation by calling him the primary personal inspiration and “the leader of every black man.”
In a speech first reported by The New York Post, Baraka said she would give Farrakhan two applauses. First, after Farahan condemned the nonviolent protests of the civil rights movement, he said: "We don't believe there is no nonviolence. The cookies hit your chin and you broke his neck. That's how we think."
After Farrakhan demonized the whites into "enemy", Baraka applauded again.
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Left: Baraka and Farrakhan introduced missionaries as “moral authority” in their present gubernatorial candidates’ speeches in 2004. Right: Baraka (in brown sweater) applauded Farrakhan (leftmost) speech. (Islamic State Website)
Local media inside New Jersey, New Jersey, reported that a spokesman for the Baraka campaign confirmed the arrest, saying he was “arresisted and detained by ice” and that he was transported to the Newark field office for the Homeland Security Investigation.
DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that Rep. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and Lamonica McIver, all New Jersey Democrats were involved in the incident and rushed to the gates of the facility to ask them to be allowed to have a "supervised visit."
Legislators were detained at the first checkpoint.
Baraka has been protesting the facility’s opening hours for months, and he has regularly protested outside the building throughout the week.
Baraka said the use of Delaney Hall to deal with people in the country illegally violated state and local laws, resulting in the city filing a lawsuit in the Essex County Superior Court in late March.
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Congressmen and protesters attempted to enter the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey. (x/@repbonnie)
Baraka said in a press conference on Monday that the Geo Group, a private company that runs the prison, “follows the model of the president of the United States, who thinks he can do what he wants and cover up the law, national and constitutional laws, and they think they can do the same in New Jersey and Newark and Newark.”
Commenting on the arrest, New Jersey Senator Jon Bramnick said the Republican gubernatorial candidate told Fox News: “It doesn’t surprise me because he has been fighting Delaney Hall’s opening ceremony because it opened the news, and the mayor “is not very satisfied with the ice taking over Delaney Hall.” ”
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, DN.J. Also a candidate for the governor, condemning the arrest, calling it "absolute anger."
Scheer said Baraka “needs to be released immediately.”
Another Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Steven Fulop, who is the mayor of Jersey, also condemned the arrest, saying: "We are watching crossing the line in real time" and "this is a dangerous precedent."
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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka spoke after a Democratic governor debate at Riders University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey on February 2. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
Meanwhile, another Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, Jack Ciattarelli, called Baraka's move "a cheap publicity stunt."
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“In Newark, the airport is in an unprecedented and dangerous collapse, with students and families in public schools failing and committing crimes on the streets every day. However, its mayor and leading Democratic candidate (Ras Baraka) are busy shups on illegal immigrants on ice at cheap public rates in cheap public public rates.
Louis Casiano of Fox News Digital and Bill Melugin of Cameron Arcand of Fox News Channel contributed to the report.