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Hey, NJ! This week, we’re talking about the recent confrontations outside Delaney Hall.
The scene outside the Newark immigrant detention center captured national attention over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, when tensions hit a boiling point between protesters and ICE agents over detainees' hunger and labor strike.
The tension grew the following weekend, when peaceful protestors were joined by crowds showing support for ICE agents. Gov. Mikie Sherrill dispatched state troopers to Newark, while Mayor Ras Baraka ordered city officers to patrol the scene and instituted a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew within a half-mile radius of Delaney. More than 60 people were arrested, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Hosts Maddi Ference and John P. McAlpin are joined by photojournalists Tom Franklin and Esteban Marenco, who covered the unrest outside Delaney Hall for NJ News Wire, a network of local journalism outlets that is supported by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. Franklin and Marenco discuss what goes into capturing powerful images in breaking news stories, staying safe when photographing protests and how the rules of covering conflict have evolved over the years.
We want to hear from you! What stories should we be covering? What questions should we be asking? Let us know! Send an email to underthedome@njspotlightnews.org.
The scene outside the Newark immigrant detention center captured national attention over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, when tensions hit a boiling point between protesters and ICE agents over detainees' hunger and labor strike.
The tension grew the following weekend, when peaceful protestors were joined by crowds showing support for ICE agents. Gov. Mikie Sherrill dispatched state troopers to Newark, while Mayor Ras Baraka ordered city officers to patrol the scene and instituted a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew within a half-mile radius of Delaney. More than 60 people were arrested, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Hosts Maddi Ference and John P. McAlpin are joined by photojournalists Tom Franklin and Esteban Marenco, who covered the unrest outside Delaney Hall for NJ News Wire, a network of local journalism outlets that is supported by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. Franklin and Marenco discuss what goes into capturing powerful images in breaking news stories, staying safe when photographing protests and how the rules of covering conflict have evolved over the years.
We want to hear from you! What stories should we be covering? What questions should we be asking? Let us know! Send an email to underthedome@njspotlightnews.org.
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