This story was reported by NJ Monitor, a nonprofit publishing partner of NJ Spotlight News.
A man who works at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall and charged with striking a protester with his car on June 21 blamed demonstrators for causing him to hit the woman, court records show.
Video of the Father’s Day incident, showing the red 2023 Dodge Challenger hitting a woman and knocking her down, spread quickly online. Delaney Hall, owned by Boca Raton, Fla.-based Geo Group, has been the site of near-daily protests in the last month…