Impeach the motherfucker.
Officials at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility have placed a correctional officer on administrative leave after a pickup truck drove into protesters who were blocking the entrance to the facility’s employee parking lot Wednesday night.
Protest organizers said a 64-year-old man suffered a broken leg, internal bleeding and possibly a back injury.
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The peaceful protest began at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Jenks Park on Broad Street in Central Falls. It was organized by Never Again Action, a Jewish protest movement that has been demonstrating at Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices and detention centers nationally. Wyatt has been the focus of protests since March, when it began accepting ICE detainees.
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[Amy Anthony, spokeswoman for Never Again Action,] [...] said another person, whom she could not identify, was also injured by the truck. She said three others [...] were treated due to pepper spray that appeared to have been used by officers to disperse the crowd of protesters.
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Videos taken from the scene at about 9:50 p.m. showed protesters in yellow T-shirts sitting in front of the entrance to the employee parking lot and chanting slogans. The videos show a black pickup truck suddenly accelerating toward and stopping just short of the protesters.
The protesters then stood, and some started banging on the hood of the truck. It then pushed forward again, causing protesters to scream.
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In a news release, Wyatt identified the officer on leave as Capt. Thomas Woodworth. A spokesman for the jail would not say whether Woodworth was the man driving the truck, but in video of the incident, protesters could be heard shouting his name as they surrounded the vehicle after it came to a stop.
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“Captain Thomas Woodworth has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the independent investigation being conducted by the Rhode Island State Police, and the Wyatt’s internal investigation.”
Providence Journal
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