The Lamonica Mciver representative declares himself innocent of the positions derived from the incident of the ice detention center
The New Jersey representative, Lammonica Mciver, declared herself innocent of charges claiming that she assaulted the law agents outside an immigration detention center, said her office.
McIver appeared in a federal court on Wednesday for his reading of charges after a Federal Grand Jury returned an accusation of three positions earlier this month that accused it of “assaulting, resisting, preventing and interfering” with the agents of federal law.
The Lamony Representative McIver arrives at the Federal Court for reading positions on June 25, 2025.
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The Democratic congressman claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office is politically motivated, and her office described the “without foundation” positions.
“This is political intimidation,” McIver said at a press conference on Wednesday about Capitol Hill, while he joined dozens of Democratic legislators.
“This is Trump putting together the Department of Justice for the people who speak against him, for elected members and leaders who do their job to hold this administration,” he said, added: “We will not be intimidated.”
In this archive photo of May 9, 2025, the Lamonica Mciver representative leaves the land in Delaney Hall, an ice detention center in Newark, NJ
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On May 9, McIver and several other members of the Congress were in Delaney Hall, a Customs Detention and Customs Detention Center of the United States in Newark, to perform supervision.
The tensions intensified when a federal officer ordered the mayor of Newark Ras Baraka to leave an insured area of the facial installation or arrest, and pressing and pushing allegedly, according to prosecutors.
“During his continuous attempts to frustrate the arrest, McIver hit his forearm in the body of an agent of the law and also contacted and tried to contain that officer by grabbing him by force,” said the Department of Justice in a press release after the accusation. “McIver also used each of his forearms to forcefully attack a second officer.”
McIver spokeswoman Hanna Rumsey said on Wednesday that the congresswoman “confidently entered her official statement: not guilty.”
“These positions have always been about politics and the representative McIver will not be dissuaded to do the work that the people of New Jersey elected it to do,” Rumsey said in a statement. “The congresswoman will not bend.”
McIver’s supporters gathered outside Newark Federal Court on Wednesday, and some requested the closure of Delaney Hall.
The supporters of the Lamonica Mclver representative have posters outside a federal court, on June 25, 2025, in Newark, NJ
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If it is convicted, the maximum fine for the charges in the accusation varies from one to eight years, according to the United States interim prosecutor, Alina Haba.
“As I said in the past, it is my constitutional obligation as federal director of the Federal Law of New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their functions,” said Haba, former defense lawyer of President Donald Trump, in a statement after the accusation. “While people are free to express their points of view for or against particular policies, they should not do so in a way that endangers the police and the communities that these officers serve.”
Baraka was arrested in the installation and accused of search, although he had later dropped the position.
Arthur Jones II of ABC News contributed to this report.
