Biography
Anita Wise is a freelance video producer. Police arrested the journalist on May 31, 2026, while documenting protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark. The journalist told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that officers prevented the journalist from leaving a police enclosure despite identifying as press, forced the journalist to the ground, and used tight zip ties. The journalist was held in police custody overnight and released on June 1. Reporting in June documented that resisting-arrest and riot charges had been dropped or reduced, leaving a failure-to-disperse charge.
Verified detail sources (October 9, 2026, further review): The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s interview with Anita Wise uses she/her for the freelance video producer arrested while reporting in Newark on May 31, 2026. Existing custody dates are preserved. This evidence concerns the same journalist, not another person with the same name. Source 1.
