Democrat Congresswoman Assaults ICE Agents – Media Calls It ‘Oversight,’ Swalwell Screams ‘Red Line,’ and Mayor Raspberry Walks Free

Another “arrest”! Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Rep. McIver Charged With Assault Over Clash Outside Newark ICE Center.

Ironically, on the same day, Interim US Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, also dropped misdemeanor trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras “Raspberry” Baraka, who’d been charged after trying to get himself deported at a local ICE detention center. At the time, he was accompanied by two loud, forceful Representatives of ambiguous gender, including Representative LaMonica McIver, who was clearly there to throw “her” weight around. (For now, I’ll refer to McIver as “her” since the Times did, but I don’t know for sure what her or it’s preferred gender is.)

“You can’t talk to a congresswoman like that,” she tells an ICE agent in one video clip, not at all entitled. She warned them darkly, in a low, growling voice that sounded remarkably like Boris Badanov from Rocky & Bullwinkle: “You will pay!” (Just less of a Russian accent and more of a New Jersey urban dialect, or patois, or whatever they call it.)

Anyway, on May 9th, a noisy group of indignant Democrat lawmakers and friends tried to invade the borders of a brand new ICE Detention facility in Newark. The ‘gang’ included three Democrat Congressmen, Mayor Baraka, and about a dozen of just the most necessary members of their posse. They stridently claimed that their oversight role as members of Congress meant they could enter any federal facility anytime they wanted without notice.

ICE agents objected, explaining they could not enter without an escort (for their own safety) or bring along non-Congressmembers like Mayor Baraka, and asked them to leave.

McIver, Baraka, and the rest of the brave company loudly refused.

 
What ensued has become a highly contentious “he said-she said” controversy. The Times, fastidiously avoiding choosing sides, described the scene as “a confusing scrum” and a “chaotic scuffle.” But at one point, Miss McIver is clearly visible charging and surging through the ICE officers like an enraged hippopotamus. Except louder.

It’s hard to miss her in the clip, since she is one of the largest objects and practically scatters six grown men like they were bowling pins.

After the group was finally removed, ICE agents gave the three Congressmen (including the two birthing persons) a tour anyway. Nobody in the useless corporate media has ever bothered to ask whether McIver & Co. were there to legitimately oversee the detention facility or just create a mob-like media moment.

In a statement, Interim US Attorney Alina Habba said her office had tried to “work things out” with Rep. McIver, but she remained immovable. Thus, yesterday, “Miss” McIver became a justice-involved individual after the DOJ filed criminal charges for assaulting a federal officer.

Under the relevant statute, Rep. McIver faces up to 8 years and a maximum fine of $250,000.

As for Mayor Raspberry, “After extensive consideration, we have agreed to dismiss Mayor Baraka’s misdemeanor charge of trespass for the sake of moving forward,” Habba said. That’s code for: they found something about the case they didn’t like, or worked something out, or are picking their battle. Either way, they traded up misdemeanor trespassing charges against a kooky mayor for felony assault charges against a sitting Democrat Congressperson.

Democrats were outraged. How dare they, et cetera. Nancy Pelosi’s Twitter account, yesterday:

 
But was it a legitimate oversight? Anyway, Representative Eric Swalwell, who sued Trump over J6, and served on Trump’s first impeachment trial team, furiously labeled Miss McIver’s arrest as “crossing a red line.” In all-caps:

 
From her public statements, it is clear that McIver intends to argue that she lacked intent to assault anybody: she was just reacting, or was innocently defending Mayor Baraka, or maybe she had an ecstasy flashback and thought she was in a mosh pit.

But not so fast. Her furious words —“you will pay!”— are evidence of intent, so the DOJ is off to a good start with this one. It’s a thin case against a well-protected defendant, but the case isn’t so thin as to be invisible.

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