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Mayor Ras Baraka on His Arrest & Leading New Jersey

“They targeted me because I'm the mayor of the city,” says Newark, New Jersey mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka. In this tell-all interview, he discusses his arrest at Delaney Hall, a new private immigration detention facility in Newark. Baraka is a frontrunner in the gubernatorial race and could make history as the first Black governor in New Jersey.
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