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Anti-ICE protesters mob NYC hospital as 9 activists arrested in chaotic clash with law enforcement

Nypost · · 400 words · By David DeTurris
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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Nine people were arrested as a mob of anti-ICE protesters descended on a Brooklyn hospital and tangled with law enforcement in a chaotic, caught-on-video clash on Saturday night”
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Two different web search results report different arrest numbers for the same event: one source states nine people were arrested, while another states eight people were arrested.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine people were arrested as a mob of anti-ICE protesters descended on a Brooklyn hospital and tangled with law enforcement in a chaotic caught-on-video clash on Saturday night, cops said.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/anti-ice-protesters-mo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Several people are in custody after police say unruly crowds gathered on the streets of Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood following an arrest by ICE agents late Saturday night.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/8-arrested-after-protests-break-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Protests against ICE have spread across major U.S. cities including New York, Seattle, and Austin, with clashes between demonstrators and police leading to arrests and injuries.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coast-to-coast-anti-ice-chaos-cau…
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“The unruly group of around 100 activists arrived outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'approximately'. No news sources in the evidence provided confirm the specific number of activists or the location of the gathering.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of APPROXIMATELY is in an approximate manner —used to indicate that a stated number, amount, or value is an approximation. How to use approximately in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/approximately
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web search NEUTRAL — Get a quick, free translation! APPROXIMATELY definition: 1. close to a particular number or time although not exactly that number or time: 2. close to a…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/approxim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Define approximately. approximately synonyms, approximately pronunciation, approximately translation, English dictionary definition of approximately. adj. 1. Almost exact or correct: the approximate t…
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/approximately
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“federal immigration agents were in the neighborhood and had taken a man in their custody to the hospital for medical attention”
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A news report from WABC confirms that ICE agents arrested a man at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on a Saturday night.
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web search NEUTRAL — BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A large crowd grew outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on Saturday night as ICE agents arrested a man. Dramatic video shows ICE agents dragging a man outside of the hos…
https://abc7ny.com/post/protest-breaks-ice-arrests-man-wycko…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nurses and administrators at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick, Brooklyn will hold an urgent community speak out and pressevent in front of the hosp...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0u3MO23Gs
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web search NEUTRAL — building of Stanford Medicine. After detaining a woman in East Palo Alto Monday morning, ICE officials brought her to Stanford Hospital to recieve treatment after a medical emergency.(Photo: CRYSTAL C…
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/08/26/ice-agents-take-detaine…
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“Cops responded to the disorderly crowd – who were blocking traffic and emergency entrances and exits to the hospital – around 10:25 p.m.”
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The evidence provided for this claim contains general information about the NYPD and a different protest in LA, but no specific confirmation of the 10:25 p.m. response time or the blocking of entrances at Wyckoff Heights.
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web search NEUTRAL — In 2019 the NYPD responded to 482,337 reports of crime and made 214,617 arrests.[9] There were 95,606 major felonies reported in 2019, compared to more than half a million per year when crime in New Y…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Departmen…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK — A drunken Queens man broke into his estranged wife’s home early Thursday and sparked a massive caught-on-video gas explosion that destroyed the house and left multiple NYPD cops injured, of…
https://www.police1.com/bwc-several-nypd-officers-injured-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — The sheriff's department later tweeted that the reporter interfered with the arrest of a male protester. Police later added: 'After deputies issued a dispersal order for the unlawful assembly of a gro…
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8727929/Disgusting-sc…
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“ICE agents left the hospital with the man in their custody around 2 a.m. Sunday morning”
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The search results returned information about 'IceForum' (a skating facility), which is irrelevant to the claim about ICE agents leaving a hospital.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ice Forum Duluth facility opened in 1994. The Ice Forum is a Professional Facility that includes "The Breakaway Grill" a full-service restaurant, overlooking the Breakaway Ice as well as The Fires…
https://www.iceforum.com/page/show/5205278-address-and-dulut…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 21, 2026 · We're excited to help you learn to skate! We offer 8-week semester classes for tots, kids, and adults year-round, offering the Learn to Skate USA program of United States Figure Skating…
https://www.iceforum.com/infoandschedule
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web search NEUTRAL — ABOUT US IceForum operates Georgia's finest two sheet ice skating facility. The ice surfaces are regulation NHL size and the facility boast a full service snack bar, a pro shop, skate sharpening and r…
https://www.iceforum.com/
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“ICE agents... wildly dousing the crowd with pepper spray and speeding away in an SUV – but not before banging into a person in the crowd”
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The search results returned information about 'IceForum' (a skating facility), which is irrelevant to the claim about pepper spray and an SUV.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ice Forum Duluth facility opened in 1994. The Ice Forum is a Professional Facility that includes "The Breakaway Grill" a full-service restaurant, overlooking the Breakaway Ice as well as The Fires…
https://www.iceforum.com/page/show/5205278-address-and-dulut…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 21, 2026 · We're excited to help you learn to skate! We offer 8-week semester classes for tots, kids, and adults year-round, offering the Learn to Skate USA program of United States Figure Skating…
https://www.iceforum.com/infoandschedule
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web search NEUTRAL — ABOUT US IceForum operates Georgia's finest two sheet ice skating facility. The ice surfaces are regulation NHL size and the facility boast a full service snack bar, a pro shop, skate sharpening and r…
https://www.iceforum.com/
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“Protesters and cops dispersed not long after at 2:45 a.m.”
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The search results discuss general protests and a hearing involving Pete Hegseth, but provide no evidence regarding the dispersal time of the Brooklyn hospital protest.
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web search NEUTRAL — Protesters caused a frenzy after interrupting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during his appearance before a Senate committee. The 45-year-old former Fox News host was testifying before the Senate ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-pete-hearing-desc…
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web search NEUTRAL — This map shows recent and planned US protest locations and turnout over time. Locations are shown by date, which you can either browse or run as an animation. For larger event days, estimated proteste…
https://protestmap.info/
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web search NEUTRAL — Stay up to date on the latest Protests and demonstrations news coverage from AP News.
https://apnews.com/hub/protests-and-demonstrations
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“Nine people were taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest, criminal mischief, obstructing governmental administration”
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The search results provide definitions of the number nine and information about a movie called 'Nine', but no evidence regarding the specific charges filed against the protesters.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is strongly associated with the Chinese dragon, a symbol of magic and power. There are nine forms of the dragon, it is described in terms of nine attributes, and it has nine children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, loosely based on the musical of the same name, which in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_(2009_live-action_film)
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web search NEUTRAL — Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
https://www.nine.com.au/
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“New York’s sanctuary city policy... limits cooperation with federal immigration agencies like ICE”
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“Witnesses also reported seeing the NYPD lend a jack to ICE agents in order to do a quick repair on their vehicle”
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