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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Says Feds Tried To Humiliate Him With Second Mugshot After Arrest At ICE Protest

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -66% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Given those facts, many expressed their views that the arrest and subsequent charges against Baraka are forms of political retribution for his principled stances.
41% : In a conversation with The Nation, Baraka positioned his actions not as a protest, but merely the attendance of a press conference while expressing his disdain for The GEO Group The GEO Group is a private prison company that owns Delaney Hall, the site where Baraka was arrested, and has a 15-year, $60 million a year contract with ICE, the subject of a legal dispute in New Jersey related to ICE's outsourcing of its practice of mass detention to private prison groups like GEO.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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