Grand Jury Federal has returned the indictment that demands Rep. Lamonica Mciver was allegedly attacking law enforcement officers outside the immigration detention facility last month, officials announced Tuesday.
The charge of three counts accusing members of the Democratic Congress by “Forcibly Harrifies and Disrupts Federal Law Enforcement Officers” at the facility, US Prosecutor New Jersey Alina Habba said in a post in X.
“As I have stated in the past, it was my constitutional obligation as the Head of Federal Law Enforcement Officers for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners were protected when carrying out their duties,” Habba said. “While people are free to express their views to or oppose certain policies, they may not do it in a way that endangers law enforcement and the community served by the officers.”
This indictment is a standard procedural step after the Habba office demands Mciver through a criminal complaint last month.
Mciver has vowed he will fight accusations and plans to claim to be innocent.
“The facts of this case will prove that I only do my job and will expose this process for what it is: efforts to bold political intimidation,” he said in a statement about X. “This indictment is no more justified than what I will not do.
CAM Police Agency Mixed New Jersey Rep. Lamonica Mciver outside the ice detention facility, in Newark, NJ, May 9, 2025.
United States District/District Court New Jersey
On May 9, Mciver and several other members of the Congress were in the Delaney Hall, the Facilities for Immigration Detention and Customs Enforcement of the US Customs in Newark, New Jersey, to conduct surveillance.
Tension increased when a federal officer ordered the Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka to leave the area secured from facial facilities or capture, and encourage and encourage suspected, according to the prosecutor.
“As long as the effort continues to thwart the arrest, Mciver slammed his arms into the body of a law enforcement officer and also reached and tried to hold the officer by force it,” said the Department of Justice in a press release on Tuesday. “Mciver also uses each of his arms to forcefully attack the second officer.”
Following the accusation through criminal complaints, Mciver accused in a statement that the decision was motivated politically.
“Allegations of me are purely political – they misinterpret and change my actions, and are intended to criminalize and prevent legislative supervision,” Mciver said.
The Democratic Top House also released a joint statement last month defending Mciver, swearing to “with enthusiasm” responding to what they said was the misuse of unauthorized power.
“The attack on one of us is an attack on the American people. Democrat house will respond with enthusiasm in the days to come to a time, place and way of our choice,” said the leaders.
If it is proven, the maximum sentence for accusations in the indictment ranges from one to eight years, said Habba.
Baraka was arrested at the facility and was charged with committing a violation, even though Habba then canceled the indictment.