Overview
- The Sunday event was held at SUNY Rockland Community College’s Cultural Arts Center in Suffern with roughly 450 attendees and about 100 people outside at a “Vigil for Victims of ICE.”
- One audience member who shouted “Answer the f---ing question” was removed at Lawler’s request and escorted out by a Rockland County sheriff’s deputy as some in the crowd yelled to let him stay.
- Attendee Emily Feiner said the two people removed were U.S. veterans, while Lawler said they were ejected for disruptive conduct rather than for their questions.
- Audience members chanted “What’s your line?” in a callback to a prior viral clash at a Lawler town hall where Feiner was carried out.
- Lawler called the Minneapolis deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti “tragic” and “preventable” and said ICE agents should not wear masks, as scrutiny of the Trump-aligned incumbent grows in a vulnerable district.