Noise demonstration held outside Wyatt Detention Center on New Year’s Eve

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (WLNE) — A group of protestors with The Fang Collective held a noise demonstration outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls on New Year’s Eve.

According to attendees, they were there “demanding an end to all cages from Palestine to the U.S. border to Central Falls.”

This is a photo of a sign outside the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls on New Year’s Eve. (The Fang Collective)

Organizers of the demonstration said they wanted to call attention to connections between state violence that impacts undocumented migrants and U.S. military support for Israel.

In a press release, the activists said “the same funding used for the infrastructure of the U.S. war and surveillance all over the world, including Palestine, is used to militarize the border, militarize the police and increase detention and imprisonment for all kinds.”

This is a photo of protestors outside the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls on New Year’s Eve. (The Fang Collective)

Back in 2019, roughly 600 protesters with the ‘Never Again’ movement protested outside the Wyatt, comparing the treatment of migrants at the U.S. border to those of the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

That protest turned violent after a pick-up truck, driven by Wyatt Corrections Captain Thomas Woodworth, barreled into the activists outside.