The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey has decided to bring charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) for allegedly assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during a scuffle outside a detention facility in Newark earlier this month.
“After a thorough review of the video footage of Delaney Hall and a full investigation from HSI, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey has made the determination to charge Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers,” Director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on X Monday evening.
“No one is above the law. If any person, regardless of political party, influence or status, assaults a law enforcement officer as we witnessed Congresswoman McIver do, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” she added. “We thank our brave ICE law enforcement officers for their service to this great nation.”
During a protest on May 9 at the Delaney Hall detention center, a privately run facility under contract with ICE, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested and charged with trespassing after entering the facility and refusing to leave.
An ugly scuffle ensued as several Democrat lawmakers surrounded Baraka in an apparent attempt to shield the mayor from the ICE agents making the arrest.
An online video shows McIver screaming at the officers as they tried to break through their blockade.
The congresswoman, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, can clearly be seen throwing punches and shoving law enforcement officers as they tried to regain control.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey said in a press release Monday that the trespassing charge against Baraka has been dismissed “for the sake of moving forward.”
However, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba stated on X that her office is charging McIver with a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.
Habba said she “persistently” attempted to address McIver’s actions without bringing criminal charges but the congresswoman rebuffed her efforts.
In a statement posted on social media, McIver called the charges against her “purely political” and said she looks forward “to the truth being laid out clearly in court.”
“Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my district. We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short. Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka,” McIver said.
Update:
President Trump was asked about the Justice Department’s charges against McIver after a meeting with House Republicans about the “big beautiful bill.”
“Is your DOJ weaponizing with the arrest of a Congresswoman? Democratic Congresswoman?” a reporter asked.
“Oh give me a break! Did you see her? She was out of control,” Trump responded, making clear that the Justice Department will no longer tolerate lawlessness from Democrats.
“You know those days are over,” he said. “The days of woke are over … That woman was out of control. She was shoving federal agents,” he continued. “The days of that crap are over in this country. We’re going to have law and order.”
The defendants actions were “Video Obvious”. On the other hand the law-breaking of Comey, Clinton and Obama is far more serious and the evidence is just as obvious. They are more guilty than Russia, George Soros, Benedict Arnold and the Rosenbergs.
There are three types of people in this world. The Good, The Bad and all the rest,
who can’t be bothered to be (are too lazy) to be much concerned about the consequences of their actions;
as long as they can play along to get along and live their lives of?
Going no where worth going, but vouchsafe - more or less safe and secure from censure and the dangers that might intrude and discomfit them and theirs if they ever - God forbid - actually took a stand for good - or tried to “win one for the Gipper”.
Given the nature of human nature it’s only natural, to be expected - like breathing out and breathing in - second nature to them since acknowledging and taking responsibility for their free will and being in charge of their lives would militate against shifting responsibility to something they can’t blame for their woes - the “other”.
The “leaders” - psychopaths - of the ilk of Obama, the Clintons and excreable excrement that is Comey are merely the figureheads and the likes of Soros their cheerleaders.
They, like this lowlife, fat pig of a woman, who hopefully is headed to prison are - as we know beyond hope of being rehabilitated.
They would sell their mother’s “down the river” (into slavery), for the right price, if they could make sure mama didn’t know, wouldn’t find out, who done did her wrong.
Fortunately, there’s a dead reckoning in store for them that the human form imposes and, in the end, when the grim reaper comes a callin’ - all their machinations and devious plans - that were and are only sustained by force of their will - not dedicated to fulfilling the will of God will die with them.
And, if there is a Santa Claus, fer sure? There is, they will find, a place called hell waiting for them to take up permanent residence in.
But, aside from hoping for the employment, deployment, of a new and improved for modern audiences, cutting edge like French Revolution solution? That being a place and method which, we are beyond, we hope going? We will just have let them, as they currently are, dig their own graves.
Irrespective of how insane, deranged and evil they indisputably are.
The fabric of reality, the power of truth, Justice and the spirit given voice by and embodied in the American Way - are more powerful - even if less gratifying due to them taking more time!