Ali Velshi escorted away by police as he reports on protest outside NJ ICE facility
Ali Velshi escorted away by police as he reports on protest outside NJ ICE facility
While reporting on a large police presence breaking up a protest outside Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey, Ali Velshi is escorted away by police.
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BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS NOW YOU'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE PROTESTERS COMING BACK, WE'VE SEEN ONE PERSON UNDER ARREST SO FAR.0:06
6 seconds
WE CAN'T SEE THE REST OF THEM, HOWEVER, LOOK OVER THERE, ALEX, TO THE RIGHT, THERE IS A VERY LARGE GROUPING OF POLICE NOW0:12
12 seconds
MOVING IN WITH BATONS AND WITH SHIELDS, THEY ARE MOVING TO PROVIDE NOW A REAR SUPPORT GUARD FOR THE POLICE THAT ARE THERE.0:22
22 seconds
YOU
CAN SEE STATE POLICE, YOU CAN SEE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY POLICE. I DON'T
KNOW WHO THOSE NEW POLICE ARE. THEY'RE IN TACTICAL GEAR.0:30
30 seconds
SO IT MAY BE A SWAT TEAM OF SOME SORT. BUT THEY ARE MOVING IN.0:33
33 seconds
I WILL TELL YOU, CATHERINE, THE NUMBER OF PROTESTERS LEFT BEFORE THIS HAPPENED WAS RELATIVELY SMALL.0:40
40 seconds
I THINK THE LAST TIME YOU AND I WERE TALKING WAS PROBABLY ABOUT A 100, 125.0:43
43 seconds
By the time we left, it was well, well under that.0:46
46 seconds
There are far more police here than there were protesters.0:49
49 seconds
What you're looking at to the left of the scene, you see all those police. It's hard to see because it's dark.0:55
55 seconds
But to the left of it is the entrance to Delaney Hall.0:57
57 seconds
Earlier, when we saw one of the detainees being released, it was from that part.1:03
1 minute, 3 seconds
Just
beyond that is the welcome center, the support center for the families
of detainees where they provide food and support for them.1:11
1 minute, 11 seconds
That's where everything has stopped, and we're not quite sure why it's stopped at this point.1:16
1 minute, 16 seconds
We are being asked by police to move back, so I'm going to be doing that. Can we stay here?1:36
1 minute, 36 seconds
you able to tell us what is happening there because we're trying okay is this okay we stay here all right1:43
1 minute, 43 seconds
unfortunately
won't be able to cover it if we go that far back I We don't want to get
anybody's way, but we won't be able to cover it if we go that far back.
All right. So are we good now?1:52
1 minute, 52 seconds
Yes. Back them up, yeah. All right. Depressed.1:54
1 minute, 54 seconds
All right. So you hear what's going on here.1:57
1 minute, 57 seconds
They
are asking us all to back THE RULES AROUND HERE ARE THAT YOU CAN'T
INTERFERE WITH THE COVERAGE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO LAW ENFORCEMENT IS
ASKING US TO BACK UP.2:06
2 minutes, 6 seconds
WE ARE ASKING THEM, DO YOU KNOW WHY WE'RE BEING REMOVED?2:11
2 minutes, 11 seconds
CAN YOU TELL US WHAT'S going on behind you okay how far do we need to go back all right so that impedes our ability to2:18
2 minutes, 18 seconds
to
talk about what's going on okay do you know if anybody uh are you
making arrests all right well as you can see katherine we're not getting2:27
2 minutes, 27 seconds
a
response as to what is happening here we are being pushed back however
uh we can still see there is more police presence that is gathering2:35
2 minutes, 35 seconds
on the scene we're still seeing more police we're not seeing POLICE AND PROTESTERS.2:42
2 minutes, 42 seconds
I DID SEE ONE ARREST, I HAVEN'T SEEN MORE SINCE THEN, BUT THIS IS THE SITUATION.2:46
2 minutes, 46 seconds
IT
IS, THESE POLICE ARE BEING VERY PROFESSIONAL ABOUT IT, BUT THERE ARE
SEVEN POLICE escorting me back to make sure that I'm doing this.2:55
2 minutes, 55 seconds
I'm not sure how far back we're supposed to go.2:57
2 minutes, 57 seconds
We're not doing anything to impede law enforcement, nor do we wish to.3:00
3 minutes
But we don't have any real guidance as to how far back.3:03
3 minutes, 3 seconds
I think we're pretty far HOW FAR BACK GUYS ARE WE OKAY HERE? THE ROAD IS SEVERAL MILES. HOW FAR BACK ARE WE GOING?3:10
3 minutes, 10 seconds
OKAY. I WOULD WALK WITH US FOR ALL TIME. ALL RIGHT.3:14
3 minutes, 14 seconds
I GUESS WE'LL HAVE A POLICE ESCORT ALL THE WAY I'M TRYING TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT.3:17
3 minutes, 17 seconds
I HAVE A DIRECT LINE OF SIGHT TO WHAT'S GOING ON. THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY THANK YOU.3:21
3 minutes, 21 seconds
DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY DISBURSAL OF THE POLICE.3:24
3 minutes, 24 seconds
IN FACT, WE'RE SEEING MORE WE ARE SEEING ACROSS THE ROAD THERE, ALICE. GO AHEAD, KATHRYN.3:32
3 minutes, 32 seconds
ARE THERE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PRESS THERE? IS IT JUST YOU?3:35
3 minutes, 35 seconds
THERE ARE, AND WE ARE THE only ones exactly where we are, but there is other media in the area.3:43
3 minutes, 43 seconds
In fact, I sort of observed earlier.3:45
3 minutes, 45 seconds
In
fact, it might be worth, Alex, just turning around for a second and
getting a sense of how many police cars, how many police vehicles there
are here.3:52
3 minutes, 52 seconds
I
mean, Catherine, this is the sort of presence that we want to be one
would have been used to in New York City after 9-11 when they used to do3:59
3 minutes, 59 seconds
those cobra exercises where they would converge to simulate a terrorist response.4:05
4 minutes, 5 seconds
I mean, I MEAN, THIS IS, THERE ARE MORE POLICE CARS HERE THAN THERE PROBABLY WERE PROTESTERS AT THIS POINT.4:09
4 minutes, 9 seconds
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THE POLICE ARE TAKING, REMOVING THE PRESS FROM THE SCENE VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.4:14
4 minutes, 14 seconds
IF
ALEX WERE TO TURN AROUND AGAIN, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO INJURE
YOURSELF, ALEX, this is all of these police are walking us back just to
be clear there is4:22
4 minutes, 22 seconds
no
one else here there's no one behind us it's my producers our security
and our camera that's correct THAT'S IT, ALL OF THESE POLICE ARE WALKING
US BACK.4:32
4 minutes, 32 seconds
JUST TO BE CLEAR, AS YOU'VE SEEN, WE'RE NOT RESISTING WALKING BACK.4:37
4 minutes, 37 seconds
I
AM TRYING TO ASK WHY WE'RE BEING REMOVED AND HOW FAR WE HAVE TO THIS IS
A ROAD THAT IS SEVERAL MILES LONG. SO I HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR BACK WE'RE
GOING TO GO.4:46
4 minutes, 46 seconds
WE ARE EFFECTIVELY OUT OF THE LINE OF SIGHT OF WHAT'S GOING ON, WHICH IS PART OF THE WHOLE PROBLEM WITH THE STORY, KATHERINE,4:53
4 minutes, 53 seconds
THAT WE CAN'T BEAR WITNESS TO IT, ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES CAN'T BEAR BEAR WITNESS TO IT.4:58
4 minutes, 58 seconds
WE HEAR THERE ARE HUNGER STRIKES, WE HEAR THAT THERE'S MISTREATMENT INSIDE. MIGHT BE TRUE, MIGHT NOT BE TRUE.5:03
5 minutes, 3 seconds
ICE AND DHS SAY IT'S NOT WE DON'T KNOW, AND WHEN WE TRY TO REPORT ON THE STORY, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.5:09
5 minutes, 9 seconds
AGAIN, EVERYBODY IS BEING VERY PROFESSIONAL HERE, BUT I HAVEN'T HAD THIS MUCH ATTENTION IN A LONG TIME.5:17
5 minutes, 17 seconds
THIS IS MORE VIEWERS THAN I I'M SURE, A LOT OF POLICE WHO ARE VERY CLEAR ON WALKING US BACK.5:22
5 minutes, 22 seconds
ALLY, CAN I JUST TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING AT THE VERY BEGINNING?5:26
5 minutes, 26 seconds
YOU SAID THAT POLICE REMOVED THE BARRICADES AND POLICE POLICE TOOK THE BARRICADES DOWN? YES. YES. THE POLICE... YES.5:35
5 minutes, 35 seconds
SO
WHAT HAD HAPPENED, THE WHOLE IDEA WAS THAT PEOPLE WERE GETTING, IN THE
OPINION OF THE GOVERNOR, TOO CLOSE TO THE facility so they they they5:43
5 minutes, 43 seconds
acted
they brought in the state police to act as a buffer between protesters
and uh and and ice then that didn't work out last night they had a lot
of tension5:52
5 minutes, 52 seconds
so
they brought in newark police bellevue police local police they also
have state police here but they were not in the front lines but they
created barricades there was5:59
5 minutes, 59 seconds
a
barricade and then generally six to ten feet on the other side of that
barricade is where the police would be so there was no less than 10 or
12 feet between6:08
6 minutes, 8 seconds
protesters
and police almost at any time and that more than 10 or 12 people that
were protesting no no no no that's an absolute lie6:16
6 minutes, 16 seconds
you just lied on camera what did i just say you just said there was 10 or 12 I actually said there was never more than 10 or 126:27
6 minutes, 27 seconds
I told you there was no counter-protesters left, there's at least one counter-protester left.6:32
6 minutes, 32 seconds
I
told you there were no counter-protesters left, there's at least one
counter-protester left, there's no counter-protester left, there's
another flashbang, so there's, hi Pablo, okay, that's another flashbang 6:40
6 minutes, 40 seconds
now, so we're continuing to hear a third flashbang in a row.6:44
6 minutes, 44 seconds
It's
hard not to watch you and think of how you are living the in the middle
of a meta-conversation around the story while covering the story.6:53
6 minutes, 53 seconds
The whole point has been.6:54
6 minutes, 54 seconds
I literally was saying they were sick 10 or 12 feet and he said there were 10 or 12 feet.6:57
6 minutes, 57 seconds
Yes,
we all heard you very clearly, that gentleman decided to, I think,
embody an internet commenter in real life, which is a surreal experience
for you, I'm sure, as you're covering a real serious event.7:07
7 minutes, 7 seconds
But
the idea here just to reset us, this is a warehouse that has been used
to house people who WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW GETTING THE7:16
7 minutes, 16 seconds
WORD OUT ALLEDGING THAT THEY ARE BEING MISTREATED. WORMS IN THE FOOD.7:22
7 minutes, 22 seconds
I
WANT TO MAKE THIS POINT THAT YOU'RE MAKING, IF YOU YOU LOOK OVER HERE,
YOU SEE CONTAINERS, RIGHT? THIS IS AROUND NEWARK AIRPORT. THIS IS
CONTAINERS, SHIPPING, AND WAREHOUSES.7:30
7 minutes, 30 seconds
THAT'S
WHAT THIS IS. THERE'S NO HOUSES HERE. THERE'S NO RESIDENTIAL STUFF.
THERE ARE NO RESTAURANTS around us. There are some gas stations. These
are warehouses.7:37
7 minutes, 37 seconds
Delaney
is a warehouse that is housing people and there are allegations as
there have been in other federal detention centers that the conditions
are not suitable for people,7:46
7 minutes, 46 seconds
not
just all people, but there are some young people. There are some older
people in here. There are some ill people. There are pregnant people.7:53
7 minutes, 53 seconds
And
so a lot of these protesters are, can we get them health care? Can we
get them inspected? And can we see what this facility looks like?8:00
8 minutes
When you're standing outside of it, Pablo, it looks like a warehouse, like any other warehouse.8:04
8 minutes, 4 seconds
And the allegation is that it's actually a warehouse and that's what it looks like inside.8:07
8 minutes, 7 seconds
Divided
into cells without proper sanitation, without enough toilets, without
enough sanitation for everyone. And this whole thing.8:14
8 minutes, 14 seconds
This whole thing revolves around trying to get proper information about what's going on in there. And that's what we can't get.8:21
8 minutes, 21 seconds
Proper information is the thing that's missing and that we're trying to do.8:24
8 minutes, 24 seconds
But as you can now see, these police officers continue to walk us back. I guess we're all getting our steps in tonight.8:30
8 minutes, 30 seconds
We are watching, I guess, a First Amendment law
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