Congresswoman charged in ICE jail melee says indictment leaves out key details
Representative Lamonica McIver is accused of attacking civil servants when they tried to arrest the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka in Delaney Hall Göçmen Prison in Newark on May 9th. (MCIVER Photo by Dana Difilippo | New Jersey Monitor)
The new court from the US representative Lamonica McIver, who wants a judge to reject a federal indictment against him, claims that the charging document excludes the basic details of those in the Newark immigrant prison on the day when prosecutors claimed that MCIVER attacks federal officers.
The indictment that hit MCIVER (D-10) with three attacks or blocks federal agents On May 9, the Mayor of Newark Ras BarakaHe exaggerates the physical contact moments between MCIVER and the agents arresting the Mayor of McIver and the actions of McIver as a congress member as a congress member, hiding that the actions of McI is part of the authorized surveillance tasks. Files Says.
Moreover, MCIVER’s legal team says that the images of federal officers from the body -worn cameras confirm the activity version. McIver stated video images in court applications, but not yet public.
“The indictment skeleton, exaggerated, jumps, and video evidence contradicts most of it, or he says.
McIver was with Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman, two democratic colleagues in Delaneney Hall. Baraka, a democrat who was running for the governor at the time, visited the prison that week to claim that the owner of the building began to host immigrants before he found the opening of the city inspectors.
Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman and Lamonica McIver talk about the arrest of the Mayor of the city Ras Baraka on May 9, 2015 and the Mayor of the city. (Photo: New Jersey Monitor)
The indictment claims that when a security gate that separates Delaney Hall from the car road opened to allow a vehicle, the three representatives “quickly enters before the door closes” and then crossed into an internal recruitment area.
MCIVER’s applications, three of them defined themselves as congress members, “Congress authorized supervision” was there and that they are there. said Stay in a safe area for about an hour. During this time, the senior federal authorities, ICE reported to the facility, claim that he mobilized his forces with approximately 15 armed agents gathered in ammunition -filled vehicles and doors.
The indictment said that Baraka came with a security detail, that the guards at the door was a part of the congress environment, that the entrance was rejected at first and then the property was allowed to enter ”. The indictment was concerned about the safety of the guard Baraka in the middle of the crowd of protesters ”.
MCIVER’s applications subsequently The barn came, the mayor spoke to the door guard. subsequently 10 minutes Later He spoke to someone on his radio. After that, the guard invited the mayor and the security detail, ”he said.
According to the indictment, a US Department of Internal Security approached Baraka and ordered to leave and spent about five minutes, and would take a “more than one warning”. be arrested If he didn’t set off.
When McIver’s files told Baraka’s approach to him when an agent team approached him and told him to leave, he referred to the video footage to say that Baraka was in peace and quietly in the door for about 40 minutes. He said he had a bar was invited He was waiting for the congress members to come out, but he was “good”. To leave. He went out and McIver, Menendez and Watson Coleman later approached the “agent around”, which later confronted with the bar.
The indictment, the internal security agency MCIVER’s “Hell, no! Hell, no!” He said. While ordering agent Baraka to place his hands behind be handcuffedIn the indictment, McIver and other congress members prevented Baraka from “siege” and the agents of the mayor of the mayor’s security details were accompanied by the property.
MCIVER’s applications, the agency’s call to arrest the Baraka, the mayor’s after returning to the prison’s property, he said. He talks about video images that claim to show to an unidentified man – “Negative Congress member MCIVER ” – Acting between the Agent and the Baraka. Then McIver’s applications say that the agent allows the agent to leave the property.
“Okay … Get out,” the agent said to the mayor.
McIver’s applications, federal agents later directed the congress members to Delaney Hall, he said. Instead, he said he would arrest the agent Baraka, who had previously moments.
Im Although he went out, I will put him in handcuffs … According to the Chief Public Prosecutor of the United States, ”he said.
This It is the first claim that the arrest of Baraka came from the Trump administration, not from the agents in Delaney Hall and from senior officials.
Currently, both sides accept, Chaos exploded.
The video images of May 9, 2025 show Lamonica McIver (Red), pushing one of the representatives, pushing one of the representatives, protesters and federal agents outside a immigrant prison in Newark. (With the permission of the Ministry of Internal Security)
Now, outside the door, the federal agents, MCIVER “to take the mayor into the apartment” as the agents “hurried” as the indictment said that the indictment tried to handcuffs Baraka. When the indictment came to the Baraka, he was “hit the body of one of the agents, he reached out, and tried to“ restrict him by force ”.
According to McIver, when he saw that Menendez and Watson Coleman was arrested, he moved to the public side of the door with a phalanx of heavy armed and masked federal agents. He claims that an unidentified man shouts to “take the mayor into a circle ve and the congress members and others did this exactly. Federal agents and protesters pushed to the congress members and says, “It is destabilizing the group, Mc said McIver’s applications.
“The members have repeatedly claimed their federal status and instructed representatives not to touch them, or he says. “The agents still pressed the members while the crowds were more tightly around.”
The indictment is after Baraka arrestedMcIver agent “used the forefronts to force forcibly”.
McIver’s applications, an ice agent after pushing a man from behind, showed any contact between McIver and the agents and forced him to the congress members and “sending a torrent from the crowd”, he said. His lawyers say McIver’s actions are a defensive reaction to this force.
McIver’s applications, when an agent returned into the safe area after the arrest of Baraka, “forcibly pushed back”, he said. He said power was “very terrible .. He wanted To make a complaint.
Subsequently Mayor was taken When he was taken into custody, the scene calmed down and three home members were finally given a delaney hall tour of MCIVER’s filing states.
Shortly after this episode, the Ministry of Interior published some video images of Scoffle on social media and slowed down to emphasize McIver’s actions. McIver says that these social media broadcasts in their new files damage a fair trial ability.
“Congress member MCIVER’s contact with representatives was a reactive, proportional response to what the government had apparently Founded, excuse and clearly Illegal arrest in chaotic conditions provided by federal agents themselves.
Only days after his arrest, the Federal prosecutors dropped the accusation of unauthorized entry against Baraka and led to the scolding of the judge who controlled the case. Baraka suits the Federal government for a malicious prosecution and false imprisonment.
Morgan Leason contributed.
