New Jersey Interim United States Attorney, Alina Habba, has indicted a sitting member of Congress, LaMonica McIver, for assaulting a Federal Officer at a protest of the Delancey Hall Immigration Detention Facility. The May 9th protest devolved into a pushing and shoving match between protestors which included three members of Congress and the Mayor of Newark New Jersey Ras Baraka and Department of Homeland Security Officials. Much of the confrontation was caught on body camera footage of the Officers involved which serves as the basis for the indictment. We will discuss this indictment on this epserves as the basis for the indictment. We will discuss this indictment on this episode of Briefing with the Chief.
