Posted on 10/22/2025 7:07:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Far-left Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey appeared in court yesterday to answer felony assault charges stemming from the rumble in which she participated outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the Garden State.
McIver’s attorney sought a dismissal from U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper.
Semper didn’t buy McIver’s argument that she was charged because she is a far-left, hate-Trump Democrat. But the judge also ordered federal prosecutors to produce more videos of the melee. He also told the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Mark McCarren, to push the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s parent agency, to remove social media posts “that are not factual” about the scrap that fingered McIver.
Background — The Rumble
McIver’s legal battle began on May 9 when she and two other far-left Democrat representatives, Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez, also of New Jersey, visited the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark. Also there was far-left Democratic Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, nationality unknown.
McIver approached Delaney Hall “allegedly to conduct a congressional oversight inspection” that just happened to coincide with a pro-illegal-alien protest at the facility, the indictment alleges:
When Delaney Hall’s security gate opened momentarily to allow a vehicle to enter into the secured area of the facility, McIver [along with Watson Coleman and Menendez] moved quickly inside to the secured area before the gate closed.
After the three landed in the reception area, Baraka and his security detail showed up in an unsecured area and told a guard that he was with the delegation. The guard denied Baraka entry. However, guards later permitted the contingent to enter the secured area because the “guard became concerned” for Baraka’s safety “amidst the crowd...
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Brainless big-mouthed broad...
I thought McIver was the guy on that TV show where he used to get himself out of fixes by improvising the things he found on hand?
Targeted? Did Trump lure her to the facility? Forced her to get aggressive? Cmon girl…. You are just a normal entitled black woman who doesnt like reality
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