“These demonstrators blocking an entrance to a facility holding illegal immigrants when the driver tried to pull into the parking lot, the protesters surrounded him, yelling, banging on the hood of the truck, blocking his entrance.”ĭobbs claimed the protesters “committed assault” by banging on the truck after Woodworth drove toward them. “Protesters in Rhode Island harassing a federal detention worker last night,” said Dobbs, an ally and adviser of President Trump. After demonstrators began to bang on the hood of his truck, the vehicle pushed forward again. Video of the protests shows the black pickup truck accelerate toward protesters and stop suddenly just before hitting anyone. The protesters had been organizing outside the Rhode Island facility since early July. The protesters were part of the “Never Again” movement, a Jewish protest group that likens ICE detention facilities to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. Fellow corrections officers sprayed protesters with pepper spray, sending three other people to the hospital. Thomas Woodworth was placed on administrative leave after protest organizers said a 64-year-old protester suffered internal bleeding and a broken leg in the attack and another protester was injured as well. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, intentionally drove his pickup truck into protesters demonstrating against the detention of migrants by ICE on Wednesday, the Providence Journal reported.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs praised a corrections officer who intentionally plowed his truck into a crowd of protesters outside a Rhode Island ICE facility, saying the attack was justified.Ī correctional officer at the Donald W.
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