On Thursday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D-NJ) spoke outside a courthouse after attending a hearing on trespassing charges.
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00:00We cannot arrest people simply because they disagree with us.
00:05We cannot target people because their political views are separate from ours.
00:09We cannot subjugate people, take their pictures, mug shots and fingerprints
00:14because we believe that somehow they oppose to our position.
00:18That, ladies and gentlemen, is authoritarianism.
00:24We believe that I was targeted in this.
00:28I was the only person arrested.
00:31That's right.
00:32You know, I was the only person identified.
00:35I was the only person, you know, they put in a cell.
00:39The only person that was in cups and the only person that's here this morning
00:43going through this humiliation for these people.
00:49They need education because they say, oh, you're defending immigrants.
00:54Well, if you walk around the city, you'll see this is the city of immigrants.
00:59And they pay taxes here and reside here and work here and raise their children here
01:03and do it the same thing everybody else dealt with here.
01:06I'm when they say meal
01:16in eight minutes here, where do they deal with in eight minutes here,
01:18or how do they deal with the county?
01:20Well, the schedule that has been mentioned to me.
01:21Have a good day,
01:23or how.