A federal immigration agent said in an affidavit made public Tuesday that Rep. LaMonica McIver “slammed her forearm” into a federal officer and pushed and “used each of her forearms to forcibly strike” a second federal officer in an altercation outside an immigration detention facility.
The eight-page complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey included still images from body cams as McIver and other members of Congress visited for an inspection and federal immigration officers attempted to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for trespass.
The document lists two felony charges against McIver for “Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding” law enforcement officers, and the affidavit from a Homeland Security Investigations special agent describes what he says happened May 9 after they ordered Baraka to leave the facility’s secure area because he was not a member of Congress.
