Senator was pepper-sprayed by ICE outside of an immigration detention center on Monday.
Senator Andy Kim was filmed having his eyes washed out with a bottle of water in a video shared by a reporter on X.
The senator has subsequently said that his eyes and throat were “burning” and that his hand hurts following the incident.
The incident unfolded outside of Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, an immigrant detention facility where inmates launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility.
open image in gallery Senator Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed after trying to ease tensions at a protest outside of an immigration detention facility in Newark ( Reuters ).
Then, ICE told him that they were planning to “push through the crowd,” because they wanted to move a vehicle.
When the vehicle did eventually start to move, Kim says he ran to put himself between the protesters and ICE agents. »