The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a criminal complaint against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), accusing her of assaulting two federal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey earlier this month.
In a May 19 complaint, prosecutors charged McIver with two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding an ICE agent and a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent during a May 9 scuffle outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
McIver allegedly attempted to thwart the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka by making “forcible contact” with law enforcement officers after they ordered him to leave the facility’s secure area as he was not part of the congressional delegation….