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August 19, 2019

Prison Guard Who Drove Truck into Jewish Activists Has Resigned
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A correctional officer in Rhode Island who last week drove his truck
into a line of peaceful protesters calling for the release of asylum
seekers has resigned. Captain Thomas Woodworth rammed into a group of
Jewish activists with the Never Again Action coalition, sending two of
them to the hospital. Another three demonstrators were hospitalized
after being pepper-sprayed by correctional officers also on the scene at
the for-profit Wyatt Detention Center. The ACLU of Rhode Island called
the attack "an attempt to chill the exercise of First Amendment rights
by hundreds of peaceful protesters." Matt Harvey, a spokesperson for
Never Again Action, noted, "If this is what he's willing to do to a
crowd of mostly white protestors in front of cameras, just imagine
what's happening inside that prison where no one's watching."


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