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Anti-ICE goons chant ‘Grab your guns and kill yourself’ at feds during violent Delaney Hall clash

Nypost · · 475 words · By Anna Young
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Anti-ICE goons chant ‘Grab your guns and kill yourself’ at feds during violent Delaney Hall clash See more of our coverage in your search results.

Claims checked 13
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Topics 3

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What happened

Anti-ICE goons chant ‘Grab your guns and kill yourself’ at feds during violent Delaney Hall clash See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleMobs of unhinged anti-ICE hoodlums howled at federal agents to turn their guns on themselves as another night of mayhem exploded outside Newark’s Delaney Hall immigration lockup Wednesday.

Common ground

Masked, keffiyeh-clad agitators pounded on drums while repeatedly hurling vile chants at immigration agents guarding the New Jersey detention center as raucous protests spiraled into chaos for a sixth straight night, according to shocking footage from Freedom…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/28/us-news/anti-ice-goons-chant-grab-your-guns-and-ki…

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eFinder identified 4 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 100% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Two protesters were arrested Tuesday night for allegedly spraying federal immigration officers with an unknown chemical substance”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “hordes of rabble-rousers squaring off with ICE agents, wielding bright orange traffic cones and using cement blocks to erect barricades”
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Two separate web search results explicitly mention the use of cement blocks and orange traffic cones to create barricades during the protests.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · Federal officers armed with batons moved in to clear barricades made of cement blocks and orange traffic cones. Demonstrators shouted ...
https://www.facebook.com/toiworldnews/posts/fk-trumps-ice-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Videos showed masked agitators hurling objects, weaponizing barriers, and setting tires ablaze while law enforcement used riot shields and ...
https://www.facebook.com/wwmtnews/posts/protesters-clash-wit…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 20, 2025 · 38-1. The ICE Directive requires ICE agents to activate BWCs during enforcement activities and. deactivate them when the activity has concluded.
https://www.scribd.com/document/952878216/Judge-Ellis-Prelim…
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Claim 3: “another night of mayhem exploded outside Newark’s Delaney Hall immigration lockup Wednesday”
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Multiple web search results confirm protests occurred at Delaney Hall in Newark, with one specifically mentioning a large group of protesters clashing with agents on May 27, 2026 (a Wednesday).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In January–February 2026, protests occurred throughout the United States in response to the shootings by immigration agents in the second Trump administration, most notably the killing of Renée Good a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_U.S._immigration_enforcem…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An election for United States Congressional seats will be held on November 3, 2026 to elect the 26 U.S. representatives from the State of New York, one from each of the state's 26 congressional distri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Reform UK is a right-wing populist and far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It has eight members of Parliament in the House of Commons, two members of the London Assembly, thirty-four memb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK
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Claim 4: “Demonstrators reportedly continued camping outside the facility Thursday morning”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 5: “raucous protests spiraled into chaos for a sixth straight night”
CORROBORATED
Multiple sources describe a week of protests and violence at the facility, including one source explicitly mentioning 'a week of protests' and another mentioning protests 'for more than a week'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April Lynn McClain Delaney (née McClain; born May 28, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Maryland's 6th congressional district…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_McClain_Delaney
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delaney Hall is a facility used for immigrant detention in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The private prison is managed by the GEO Group under contract for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaney_Hall
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 9, 2025, a confrontation and subsequent skirmish between law enforcement and four Democratic politicians occurred at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, United …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_immigration_detention_c…
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Claim 6: “an infuriated garbage truck driver lashed out at protesters and begged them to let him pass after they blocked his vehicle in the road”
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The web search results for this claim return generic articles about garbage trucks being used by police in Phoenix (2017) or protests in Argentina, but no evidence of a garbage truck driver being blocked at the Delaney Hall protests.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 14, 2017 · Phoenix police officers stand beside a dump truck blocking a road outside the Phoenix Convention Center on Aug. 22. Protests were held against ...
https://www.wunc.org/2017-09-14/police-departments-deploy-ga…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 14, 2017 · Law enforcement officers are using the trucks to prevent vehicle attacks like the one in Charlottesville that killed one woman and injured ...
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/550736563/police-departments-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 22, 2022 · Angry Argentine truck drivers blocked highways on Wednesday, protesting shortages and rising prices for diesel fuel, just as the country's ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-truck-drive…
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Claim 7: “Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin swatted down claims of a mass strike Wednesday – insisting only a “handful” of detainees are refusing meals”
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Two independent web search results confirm that Markwayne Mullin pushed back against claims of a mass strike, stating only a 'small number' or 'handful' of detainees were refusing food.
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web search NEUTRAL — Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) speaks during a House Intelligence Committee. Markwayne Mullin said detainees wanting ‘ethnic’ food can ‘go back to their country’ amid Delaney Hall protests (Getty Images).
https://news.meaww.com/markwayne-mullin-says-ice-detainees-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mullin Says Detainees Want Food From Home Countries. During Wednesday’s remarks, Mullin pushed back on claims surrounding the reported hunger strike and said only a small number of detainees were refu…
https://slaynews.com/dhs-chief-blasts-democrats-protesting-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — More than 300 detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention centre in Newark, New Jersey, have launched a hunger strike, drawing national attention to allegations of poor living conditions, dela…
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hunger-strike-delaney-hall-ice-fac…
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Claim 8: “another three were reportedly hauled in on Wednesday night”
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Claim 9: “Around 300 detainees have reportedly been on hunger strike since Friday”
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The specific number (300) and the start date (Friday) are corroborated by a cross-reference and multiple independent web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In response to the impact of homelessness in their communities, municipal governments in the United States regularly conduct sweeps of tent encampments, forcibly dispersing people from public or priva…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2017 Women's March was a network of global political rallies that took place in cities around the world on January 21, 2017. These "sister marches" were both formally and organically related to th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is an incomplete list of March for Our Lives events that took place on March 24, 2018. The official March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C., attracted a turnout of between 200,000 to 800,00…
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Claim 10: “Gov. Mikie Sherril, joined demonstrators on Memorial Day”
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Two independent cross-references from the same news organization (Nypost) confirm that Governor Mikie Sherrill joined protesters on Memorial Day.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The escalation comes a day after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill joined protesters outside the facility on Memorial Day
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-news/anti-ice-protesters-cl…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anti-ICE protests have flared outside the facility since Friday, with tensions boiling over after lefty Garden State pols, including Gov. Mikie Sherrill, joined rabble-rousers during a demonstration o…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/dhs-sec-markwayne-mull…
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Claim 11: “The thugs screamed “Grab your guns and kill yourself,” and “Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head” at more than a dozen unfazed federal officers”
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While web search results confirm that protesters threatened 'death' to federal officers and had violent confrontations, the specific quotes provided in the claim are not explicitly mirrored in the provided evidence snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April Lynn McClain Delaney (née McClain; born May 28, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Maryland's 6th congressional district…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_McClain_Delaney
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delaney Hall is a facility used for immigrant detention in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The private prison is managed by the GEO Group under contract for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaney_Hall
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 9, 2025, a confrontation and subsequent skirmish between law enforcement and four Democratic politicians occurred at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, United …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_immigration_detention_c…
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Claim 12: “Mullin emphasized detainees are “provided with 3 meals a day,” along with clean water, clothing, bedding, and toiletries”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific details of Mullin's statement regarding the provision of 3 meals, water, clothing, and toiletries.
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Claim 13: “hundreds of ICE detainees reportedly went on a hunger and labor strike over conditions inside the 1,000-bed facility”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall launched a hunger strike and work stoppage to protest inhumane conditions.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indiana University of Pennsylvania, one of two the largest university of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, first opened in 1875 as the Indiana Normal School. Upon opening, John Sutton…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 9, 2025, a confrontation and subsequent skirmish between law enforcement and four Democratic politicians occurred at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, United …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The White House State Ballroom is part of a planned new East Wing for the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The new East Wing is planned to replace the origina…
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