Anti-ICE Rioter Loses A Game Of Chicken With A Car Outside Delaney Hall

The anti-ICE crowd outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey has been escalating for days.

On Friday, that game caught up with one of them.

Independent journalist Nick Sortor was on the ground and captured the moment he says a rioter jumped in front of a civilian employee trying to drive out of the facility.

The clip shows exactly how dangerous this kind of street obstruction can get.

🚨 JUST NOW: A rioter who JUMPED IN FRONT OF a civilian employee driving out of Delaney Hall in Newark LOST a game of chicken with the vehicle

Diving in front of a convoy of fast moving government contracted vehicles is a GREAT way to spend domestic nights in the… pic.twitter.com/uifg0lX1Jh

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 6, 2026

Sortor wrote that the person jumped in front of a civilian employee driving out of Delaney Hall and “lost a game of chicken with the vehicle.”

According to The Gateway Pundit, protesters outside the facility were seen banging on employees’ cars and trying to block them from leaving.

The outlet also reported that one protester was struck by a vehicle and received attention from a medic, with the injury appearing to involve the foot or toe area.

So this was not some quiet vigil where someone got hurt by accident.

This was a crowd surrounding moving government-contracted vehicles, pounding on the glass, and refusing to let workers go home.

The bigger picture in Newark makes the Friday clip easier to understand.

The Department of Justice already charged a man in connection with the same Delaney Hall unrest, and the official account is ugly.

The Department of Justice announced the charge on May 29, 2026, and described what prosecutors alleged outside Delaney Hall:

A New Jersey man was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury.

Brendan John Geier, 26, of Madison, New Jersey, was charged by complaint today and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cari Fais.

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“Peaceful protest doesn’t translate to violently attacking federal law enforcement officers,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“Federal officers are protecting United States’ property and facilities. With virtually no local law enforcement support from New Jersey, rioters are regrouping and attacking.

We will not tolerate the vicious attacks we have seen in Newark the last few days, and we will make arrests and hold people accountable for criminal conduct.”

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, on May 28, officers of the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) were engaged in official duties relating to security and crowd-control operations during a demonstration near the ICE Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey. Certain ICE deportation officers were assigned to conduct perimeter enforcement for the facility, which included clearing the road leading to and from the facility for vehicles.

At approximately 10:30 p.m., a large group of demonstrators was blocking that road. Deportation officers, in an attempt to clear the road, formed into a line and began to move towards the group of demonstrators, which included Geier.

The deportation officers issued commands to the demonstrators to “move back,” but the demonstrators, including Geier, ignored those commands and refused to clear the road.

Geier instead engaged in a struggle with deportation officers, kicking officers and ultimately biting an officer’s forearm, and another’s knuckle. Both victims received treatment at a local hospital.

The DOJ stresses that the charge and allegations in the complaint are accusations, and that Geier is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

Fair enough. That is how the system works.

But the pattern outside Delaney Hall does not require a verdict to see.

Blocking roads, swarming cars, and biting officers is not protest. It is obstruction with menace.

Federal officers are guarding a federal facility while anti-ICE activists keep turning the perimeter into a confrontation zone.

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That is the environment outside Delaney Hall, and the activists keep daring the consequences to show up.

On Friday, the consequence was a moving vehicle and a person who decided to test it.

Nobody should celebrate an injury. But nobody should pretend this risk is a mystery either.

When a crowd surrounds working vehicles and a protester leaps in front of one, physics does not negotiate.

The lesson is simple. Stay out of the road, and stop putting your hands and your body on people just trying to do their jobs.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.