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I’ve gotta give points to Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small for a creative way to raise money for a good cause.
Small is going to auction off the opportunity to press the button that brings down Trump Plaza, turning the hulking tower that has for years sat vacant and derelict along the boardwalk into a pile of rubble.
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A Yonkers woman who sprayed officers with MACE and then vanished into the crowd during an anti-ICE protest outside the Bergen County Jail was identified and taken into custody when she returned the next day, authorities said.
Lizbeth Vazquez, 19, was already facing rioting charges in New York City, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday.
Vazquez “sprayed the officers with MACE and threatened bodily harm as an unruly group was asked to disperse” during a protest against ICE detainment of immigrants at the jail that erupted into a couple of brief skirmishes on Saturday, the sheriff said.
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When Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton’s house was vandalized with anti-ICE graffiti, Cureton joined the growing list of New Jersey pols whose homes are becoming protest sites.
This all comes as demonstrators nationwide increasingly use the tactic to pressure an array of public officials, from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Idaho board of health members.
“It’s happening all over,” said John Davenport, a philosophy professor and director of peace and justice studies at Fordham University. “It’s a trend in American society to think we can get what we want faster with social pressure.”
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A Yonkers woman who sprayed officers with MACE and then vanished into the crowd during an anti-ICE protest outside the Bergen County Jail was identified and taken into custody when she returned the next day, authorities said.
Lizbeth Vazquez, 19, was already facing rioting charges in New York City, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday.
Vazquez “sprayed the officers with MACE and threatened bodily harm as an unruly group was asked to disperse” during a protest against ICE detainment of immigrants at the jail that erupted into a couple of brief skirmishes on Saturday, the sheriff said.