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R.I. prison worker placed on leave after truck pushes through ICE protesters
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — A captain at a detention center here was placed on leave Thursday after he allegedly drove his pickup truck into a crowd and injured several people who were protesting the prison’s practice of holding detainees for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
People scrambled and screamed as Captain Thomas Woodworth allegedly honked his horn around 10 p.m. and drove at the group blocking the staff parking lot at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center.
Several people said they were injured when the truck struck them — and when other correctional officers used pepper spray on the protesters to get them away from the vehicle and let the driver out. Five people went to the hospital, including one man who suffered a broken leg and internal injuries, organizers said.
“It was shocking and horrifying,” said filmmaker Sam Eilertsen, a protester and volunteer for Never Again Action, who captured the scene on video.
“I was panicking and thought, ‘Am I filming the next Heather Heyer moment?’” he said, referring to the woman who died after a man drove into a crowd protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., two years ago.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/15/protestors-outside-detention-center-nearly-hit-pickup-truck/BJIJ5j15sK7HYujWkL1UbP/story.html?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery
People scrambled and screamed as Captain Thomas Woodworth allegedly honked his horn around 10 p.m. and drove at the group blocking the staff parking lot at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center.
Several people said they were injured when the truck struck them — and when other correctional officers used pepper spray on the protesters to get them away from the vehicle and let the driver out. Five people went to the hospital, including one man who suffered a broken leg and internal injuries, organizers said.
“It was shocking and horrifying,” said filmmaker Sam Eilertsen, a protester and volunteer for Never Again Action, who captured the scene on video.
“I was panicking and thought, ‘Am I filming the next Heather Heyer moment?’” he said, referring to the woman who died after a man drove into a crowd protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., two years ago.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/15/protestors-outside-detention-center-nearly-hit-pickup-truck/BJIJ5j15sK7HYujWkL1UbP/story.html?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery
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