Video has emerged showing the moment a Canadian woman allegedly slapped a teenage girl on the Jersey Shore boardwalk after reportedly becoming enraged over the girl’s “MAGA clothing” — an incident that later led to the woman being held in ICE custody.
Kaitlyn Tracey, 33, was allegedly captured in footage shared on social media striking the teen during Fourth of July celebrations in New Jersey.
In the clip, the colorful-haired leftist is allegedly seen hitting the teenager once on the shoulder amid the confrontation before stepping closer and delivering a second blow across the girl’s face.
Tracey then appeared to walk away, while the teenage girl — whose age was redacted in court records — remained standing in stunned silence after the alleged slap. Police said the teen did not suffer serious injuries.
Tracey was not taken into custody at the scene, but she later turned herself in after investigators said they examined surveillance video and obtained a warrant for her arrest.
She was subsequently transferred to Delaney Hall, a controversial immigration detention facility in New Jersey, where her husband, 42-year-old Matthew Geroni, told the Daily Mail that she has been stuck in “horrible” conditions.
Geroni also accused police of “lying” about the boardwalk altercation that resulted in his wife’s arrest, claiming the teenager and her friends had “provoked” Tracey and “pushed and shoved her” before the incident escalated.
He alleged the group of teens had been trying to start fights with people along the boardwalk and were taunting others with their “MAGA clothes,” which he described as merchandise supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Geroni also claimed that police lied about his wife ‘fleeing the scene’, and said she was allowed to leave before learning there was a warrant out for her arrest.
The moment a Canadian woman slapped a teenager after she allegedly flew into a frenzy over the girl’s ‘MAGA clothing’, which landed her in ICE custody, was captured on video
Kaitlyn Tracey, 33, was allegedly seen in the footage shared to social media pummeling the girl on the Jersey Shore boardwalk in New Jersey during Fourth of July celebrations
The girl, whose age was redacted from court documents, stood in stunned silence after being struck. Tracey’s husband said the teenagers were wearing ‘ICE merch’
Tracey is set to be deported after the incident, with her husband Matthew Geroni, 42, telling the Daily Mail she has been left ‘very upset’ by her detainment
When Tracey was locked up in Delaney Hall, an ICE facility that has been hit with allegations of abuse and inhumane conditions for detainees, the Canadian has struggled to cope with her arrest, Geroni told the Daily Mail.
In their brief conversation since her detention, he said she is ‘very upset.’
‘She said when she was brought there, she was left in a room where she had to sleep on a metal bench with all the lights on,’ Geroni said, adding that his wife was stuck in the same room for an entire 24 hours shortly after arriving.
‘She said the conditions in there are horrible… She was obviously very upset.’
Geroni added that most of the other inmates were Spanish-speakers, making it harder for his wife to chat properly with them about her predicament, although he said the other detainees were ‘very nice’ to her.
He maintains that his wife was not the aggressor in the confrontation that led to her arrest, and insisted that she was the one trying to get away from the group of teenagers and avoid them.
He said police at the scene let Tracey leave and described it as a ‘nothing burger’, but said investigators then reviewed a short surveillance clip of the confrontation that led to a warrant being issued for her arrest, which Geroni said was ‘out of context.’
She is now facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment and obstruction, and is set to be deported back to Canada.
Tracey is now facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment and obstruction, and is set to be deported back to Canada
The Canadian has been locked up in New Jersey’s notorious immigration facility Delaney Hall, which has been hit with allegations of mistreatment and inhumane conditions for migrants
Geroni accused the Point Pleasant Beach Police Department of ‘lying’ about the circumstances around his wife’s arrest, disputing claims that she tried to ‘evade’ cops at the scene
Geroni said the teenagers were ‘provoking’ people while wearing ‘ICE merchandise’, which he said clashed with his wife’s ‘punk’ clothes
Geroni, who often shares social media posts attacking Republicans, including wishing for Mitch McConnell to die and for the Trump family to get cancer, said he believes Donald Trump is partially to blame for the hostility.
‘Trump is emboldening these people. They’re proud of their hate, not love,’ he said.
When asked how he squares this stance with his social media posts about McConnell, Geroni said it was ‘not the same’, and answered: ‘What are we even talking about here bro?’
Geroni’s social media also shows clips of his wife performing music in a punk rock band. It is unclear what she does for a living.
When Tracey was arrested, Geroni took to social media to share a GoFundMe to help his wife get an attorney and be released, but the fundraiser was pulled down after it was reported.
He claimed the fundraiser was pulled down due to it being reported by ‘MAGA people’, however GoFundMe policies dictate that fundraisers are not allowed if they are raising money for someone accused of crimes.
Geroni said he and his wife love their lives in Ocean Beach, but he would move to Canada if needed. ‘I would do anything to be with my wife,’ he said.
Tracey’s husband Matthew Geroni previously shared a video on TikTok wishing cancer on President Trump’s entire family – including his youngest grandchildren
Geroni often shares social media posts attacking Republicans, including a recent post wishing for Mitch McConnell to die following the senator’s hospitalization
Geroni’s social media also shows clips of his wife performing music in a punk rock band
Police said Tracey slapped a teenager on the Jersey Shore boardwalk during Fourth of July celebrations – but her husband alleged to the Daily Mail that she was the one who was ‘pushed and shoved’ by a group of teenagers
He said he has struggled to contact his wife and has only spoken to her briefly since she was detained, and she told him that she was one of the only Canadians in the facility.
Delaney Hall has been hit with allegations that detainees are mistreated and suffer inhumane conditions, and Geroni said his wife was left in a holding room for a day when she first arrived, with the lights on the whole time.
‘She said there were two other women in there that had been in there over 24 hours at the time she got in,’ he said.
‘She expressed how badly she felt for them,’ he continued. ‘She was already uncomfortable, and they had been in there at least double [the amount of time].’
‘After she got into the actual facility, she said that everyone in there was very nice to her, as far as the other people,’ who were detained, he added.
