联邦众议员麦基弗被控袭击并阻碍联邦执法人员：诉状指其在纽瓦克移民拘留设施外阻拦逮捕市长
美国新泽西州埃塞克斯县纽瓦克市（Newark）2025年5月19日出现罕见一幕：一名现任联邦众议员被联邦检方刑事起诉。新泽西区代理联邦检察官 Alina Habba 当天宣布，其办公室已对联邦众议员 LaMonica McIver 提起指控，指控她在5月9日于纽瓦克的 Delaney Hall 联邦移民拘留设施外袭击、阻碍并干涉执法人员；同日提交的刑事诉状共两项罪名。McIver 随后发表声明，称指控纯属政治性质。
据当天提交的刑事诉状（案号2:25-mj-15118），国土安全调查局（HSI）特别探员 Robert Tansey 在宣誓书中称：5月9日，McIver 与另外两名国会议员抵达 Delaney Hall，称要进行国会监督视察，其间设施外的安全区正同时举行一场移民抗议集会；设施大门为放行车辆短暂开启时，McIver 与两名议员迅速进入安全区。纽瓦克市长 Ras Baraka 随后进入安全区，HSI探员多次命令他离开并警告否则将逮捕，McIver 等议员与探员争执，称国会议员依法有权在场、市长则无此权限。
诉状指称，探员宣布要逮捕市长时，McIver 高喊「绝不！（Hell no!）」，并与其他议员围住市长，阻止探员给他戴上手铐；市长被带出大门后，McIver 冲向探员、试图阻拦逮捕，并与他人环抱市长形成「人盾」。诉状具体指称：McIver 用前臂猛撞一名身着制服的HSI探员（诉状中称V-1）的身体，并伸手强行抓住他试图加以约束；逮捕完成后，她在返回设施安全区时推搡一名移民与海关执法局（ICE）驱逐官员（称V-2），并用双侧前臂用力击打对方。两项罪名均援引《美国法典》第18编第111(a)(1)条，即强行袭击、抵抗、阻碍、恐吓或干涉联邦执法人员并有身体接触。
Habba 在宣布指控的声明中说：「今天，我的办公室已指控众议员 McIver 违反《美国法典》第18编第111(a)(1)条，袭击、阻碍和干涉执法。」她同时宣布，其办公室将撤销此前对市长 Baraka 的擅闯指控。
McIver 在5月20日的声明中回应称：「本月早些时候，我与同事一起视察了我所在选区 Delaney Hall 对ICE被拘留者的待遇情况。我们是在履行合法的监督职责，正如国会议员多次做过的那样，这次视察本应和平而短暂。相反，ICE探员选择逮捕 Baraka 市长，人为制造了一场不必要的、不安全的对峙。」她说：「对我的指控纯属政治性质，它们歪曲了我的行为，意在将立法监督刑事化并加以吓阻。」
McIver 是代表新泽西州第10国会选区的民主党籍众议员。诉状由联邦治安法官 Stacey D. Adams 受理。诉状只是指控，被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪，此案后续进展GSM将另行跟进。（来源：美国联邦法院诉状）
Congresswoman McIver Charged With Assaulting and Impeding Federal Officers at Newark ICE Facility
In a rare move in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, a sitting member of Congress was criminally charged by federal prosecutors on May 19, 2025. Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced that day that her office had charged U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement during a May 9 confrontation outside the Delaney Hall federal immigration detention facility in Newark; a criminal complaint filed the same day contains two counts. McIver responded in a statement calling the charges purely political.
According to the criminal complaint (Mag. No. 2:25-mj-15118), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Robert Tansey stated in an affidavit that on May 9 McIver arrived at Delaney Hall with two other members of Congress, allegedly to conduct a congressional oversight inspection, while an immigration protest rally was taking place in the unsecured area in front of the facility; when the security gate opened momentarily to allow a vehicle to enter, McIver and the two other members of Congress moved quickly inside the secured area as the gate closed. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka then entered the secured area, and an HSI agent repeatedly ordered him to leave and warned he would be arrested, while McIver and the other members challenged the agent, protesting the mayor's removal; the agent explained that members of Congress had lawful authority to be there and that the mayor did not.
The complaint alleges that when the agent announced he would arrest the mayor, McIver yelled “Hell no! Hell no! Hell no!”, and that she and other members of Congress surrounded the mayor and prevented HSI from handcuffing him; after the mayor was moved outside the gate, McIver hurried toward the agents, attempted to thwart the arrest, and placed her arms around the mayor as she and others encircled him in a 'human shield.' Specifically, the complaint alleges McIver slammed her forearm into the body of V-1, a uniformed HSI agent, and reached out and tried to restrain V-1 by forcibly grabbing him, and that following the arrest she pushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer, V-2, and used each of her forearms to forcibly strike V-2 as she returned inside the secured area. Both counts arise under 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1), forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with federal officers, involving physical contact.
In her statement announcing the charges, Habba said: “Today my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.” She also announced that her office would dismiss the previously filed trespassing charge against Mayor Baraka.
McIver responded in a May 20 statement: “Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my district. We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short. Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka.” She said: “The charges against me are purely political — they mischaracterize and distort my actions, and are meant to criminalize and deter legislative oversight.”
McIver, a Democrat, represents New Jersey's 10th Congressional District. The complaint was attested before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacey D. Adams. A complaint is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty; GSM will follow later developments, including the June grand jury indictment, in separate coverage. (Source: U.S. federal court complaint)
来源：美国新泽西区联邦检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：联邦众议员 LaMonica McIver 第119届国会官方肖像。Brian Thorpe 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons（众议员官网图）。 / Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver for the 119th Congress. Photo by Brian Thorpe, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (from the Representative's official House website).
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