Twenty-one crowd-control weapons misuse incidents documented outside Delaney Hall detention center in Newark
2025·Location: Newark, NJ
Country of origin: United States

PHR and UC Berkeley documented 21 crowd-control weapons misuse incidents at immigration enforcement protests in Newark, New Jersey. Chemical irritants were the dominant weapon, used in 76% of incidents. The last documented incident in the dataset took place on May 30, 2026, outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark.
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