U.S. District Judge Jamel Samper has denied a motion by New Jersey State Representative (D) LaMonica McIver to not face trial over charges related to her assault of a federal official. She was caught on video assaulting an ICE officer at an ICE detention facility in Newark, NJ.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that New Jersey Democrat Representative LaMonica McIver must face trial for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer outside an immigration detention facility in Newark.
U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper denied McIver’s demand to drop two of the three charges leveled against her. The judge rejected the Democrat’s claims that the charges were excessive due to a motive of political retribution, and that because she is an elected official she is immune from prosecution, Bloomberg reported.
McIver was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a riot at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark in May.
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