US Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver has been indicted for “forcibly impeding and interfering” with federal law enforcement over a recent confrontation outside an immigration centre.
A scuffle occurred during her visit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Newark, New Jersey, on 9 May.
The incident drew widespread attention, as it unfolded at a time when the Republican administration of US President Donald Trump has faced sharp criticism from opposing Democrats over its hard-line approach to immigration.
Ms McIver, who faces a maximum term of 17 years in prison, has called the charges a “brazen attempt at political intimidation” and says she will plead not guilty.
A federal grand jury in New Jersey brought the three-count indictment against Ms McIver on Tuesday. It replaces the two assault charges that she previously faced.
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This is it, we are here folks, we need mass mobilization to the streets.
glances at LA
Way ahead of you.
Yea I know ughh
It would be nice if the democratic party & leadership could be bothered to do something.
This is literally an article about an NJ democrat who was arrested at a protest where other NJ democratic party politicians were arrested. My 2nd choice for governor, Ras Baraka, was arrested there as well. McIver was trying to prevent this illegal arrest.
The issue isnt that no one is doing anything it is that not enough of us are.
I’m sure a bunch of aides are furiously typing up letters stating their disapproval and concern at this very moment. A show of force like that ought to get Trump to back down.
You’re collectively going to have to put on your big boy pants and not delegate saving your democracy.
This is meaningless, it’s just a grand jury. As they say, “a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich”.
You were here months ago. Now get out there.
k thnx for the pep talk dad
Not me sitting at my computer contemplating all the ways I should be doing something and yet not doing anything at all.
lol
This was it and you were there in Trump’s first term…
I sure wish I could wake up from this nightmare
You can. Take to the streets. Bring your family and friends. Meet like minded people. Organize. If you aren’t into protesting, make food and bring it. Bring medical supplies and water. Feed the hungry. Help the injured. Document what is happening.
The only way to end it is to force the end.
I see a lot of comments from Americans these days along the lines of “someone needs to save us!”
Home of the brave, indeed.
Every single person in our military literally swore an oath to defend the constitution against domestic threats.
We don’t need ‘someone to save us’, we need the people employed into the systems designed specifically to stop enemies of the US like Donald Trump to do their fucking job.
But yeah, shy of that apparently-fucking-pipedream, when legal justice isn’t on the table, vigilante justice is all that’s left. We also have a subculture in the US obsessed with the 2nd amendment that regularly has wet dreams about using their trusty boomstick to save the US from tyranny, so if one of them does want to step up and save us I certainly wouldn’t complain.
We seem to have a lot of would-be heroes asleep at the wheel.
Yeah. I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised, but at this point I feel like it would be a surprise. For generations the slogans have sounded great but it’s time to put money where those mouths have been.
Go on, America, prove me wrong.
100%. Whatever spine the US built its foundation on has long since dissolved.
Go on, America, prove me wrong.
We will not.
Who was on this grand jury?
How were they selected?
Doesn’t matter. A Grand Jury proceeding, as I understand it, is almost always controlled by the prosecutor and results in an indictment if they want it to.
There’s no defense present or argument against indicting, it’s just a prosecutor explaining why they think there should be an indictment and presenting their “case”.
I think we can safely assume the DOJ prosecutor is operating on political orders and not in service of the country or the law.
I believe the old adage is that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. It’ll be interesting to see what steps are taken to either turn the inevitable trial into either a political stage show, or a black box tribunal. If they think they can spin it hard enough that their propaganda machine can make this woman look like she did something wrong, we’ll get that option. And I think that’s most likely, since it’s black woman and attacking her will be easy to get the base onboard for. But if they claim its all “national security” issues and refuse to have any press attention, we’ll know they have less than nothing.
Either way, anyone paying attention saw the original footage last month knows these people did nothing wrong.
I’m going to get darker than is probably warranted for a moment, and just ask, how are none of these authoritarian shitbags not dead already? I know stochastic terrorism is primarily a right-winger trait, but no type of human ugliness is universal to just one side of the aisle. You’d think more people would be taking a crack at Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, Pam Bondi and the other ghouls.
Unless the criminal is a cop. Grand juries fail to indict well over 90% of the time if they are a “chosen white.”
