Kim calls ICE actions ‘dangerous’ after facility confrontation

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a confrontation in which he said he experienced “irritation and burning sensation in my eyes” on Monday.

“I tried my best to get between the ICE agents and the crowd as the ICE convoy decided to just go ahead and plow through the crowd, which was just absolutely so dangerous of an action that they were doing. So, I remember, you know, the pepper balls starting to get shot towards my feet and past me,” Kim told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”

Videos circulated online showed mutual aid volunteers pouring water into Kim’s eyes as he held an ice pack in his hand outside Delaney Hall, a Newark, N.J., detention center where protesters had gathered. In one video, he was speaking directly with ICE officers surrounding a detained individual, and in another, the senator was speaking with demonstrators.

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