What happened at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn?

by Kay Wicker, on ThinkProgress

Despite reports that the Metropolitan Detention Center are operating business as usual, organizers say otherwise. Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn native and community organizer, who has been on the scene since Friday told ThinkProgress that the heat still seems to be irregular throughout the facility.

A contractor affiliated with the facility was there Sunday night, and it appeared to those gathered, including Hanif, that essential parts were missing. Even though he didn’t provide amazing news, she says his presence still felt like a good sign. “It seems like there’s a rush on this now, but that urgency is the result of the protesters who are on the ground. Otherwise it seems like the weekend would have just passed and this would have been something that was just on the back burner,” said Hanif.