“Check the Tape”: DHS Fires Back After Rep Denies Initiating ICE Clash
After being called out in 4K, you’d think some of these politicians might feel a little shame.
Not content with their outrageous behavior in Newark, New Jersey, last Friday, when they attempted to storm an ICE detention facility, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman doubled down during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union.
As Legal Insurrection reported Friday, several members of Congress attempted to breach the ICE facility at Delaney Hall in Newark and engaged in a heated confrontation with agents that turned physical, resembling a full-blown riot.
On CNN, Watson Coleman denied anything had happened, insisting there was no violence. She claimed that she and her fellow members of Congress were the ones who were pushed and shoved—and that they were, in fact, the real victims.
Trump’s rapid response team had a different take:
.@RepBonnie claims "nothing happened" when they tried to storm an ICE detention facility housing violent criminal illegal immigrants.
"If anything, we were pushed and shoved!" she says as video plays of @RepLaMonica pushing and shoving law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/j1SdYLtT2t
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 11, 2025
Still not content with seemingly misleading viewers on national television, the representative continued pushing the narrative that there was no storming and that everything remained peaceful. She even posted a video claiming they were “let in” to the facility at Delaney Hall:
Here’s the moment my colleagues and I were let into Delaney Hall. The idea we “stormed” a heavily guarded federal detention center is absurd – just more lies from the most dishonest administration in history. https://t.co/STInAtrNjk pic.twitter.com/T7WWFNqSFG
— Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (@RepBonnie) May 11, 2025
Watson Coleman has been accusing DHS of lying about the incident. But as DHS’s official X account responded: “Let’s check the tape.”
Let’s check the tape. https://t.co/1S66cGSxct pic.twitter.com/LqEFhTrnYl
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 11, 2025
Funny how she left that first part out, and only showed herself behind the gate.
Twitter/X users weren’t buying it:
Clearly a violent storming of a federal ICE detention facility and they need to be arrested.
This is not even remotely controversial…
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) May 11, 2025
This is her job as a member!
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 11, 2025
.@RepLaMonica, you're pretty easy to spot in that red blazer. Is this what you call "oversight?"
Looks more like battery to me. pic.twitter.com/7Lk4G8g0l0— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) May 11, 2025
.@RepBonnie brings gaslighting to a whole other level.
— Ida (@HeidiSnow381) May 11, 2025
After being called out in 4K, you’d think some of these politicians might feel a little shame. But these days, it seems nearly impossible to shame the shameless.
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As we know, Dems pretty much have a blank check on CNN. Especially DOCs (Dems-of-Color). They can make any wild claims, and will never be meaningfully called out or confronted with contradictory evidence. It’s what CNN calls “hard-hitting journalism.”
DARVO
DENY
ACCUSE
REVERSE
VICTIM and
OFFENDER
Nothing will happen to them
Right Bondi
Attorney General Pam Bondi will do absolutely nothing about this, because she does exactly what Trump orders her to do.
Trenchant analysis, idiot.
Ultimately Trump is responsible.
Actuall, Alina Habba is the US Attorney for NJ and she could bring charges for among other things, assaulting a Federal officer,…but she won’t
If these people are not arrested and tried, then this will continue to happen. You’re on the clock, Pam.
Law enforcement video cams were widely supported by those opposed to law enforcement, as an obvious deterrent to and documentation of police misconduct. Turns out they’re just as much that for perp misconduct.
OC a truly corrupt or out-of-control police person can inevitably suffer a “technical problem” with the cam footage, but between working police cams and the ubiquitous smart phone cameras out there the bad old days of he said / she said situations is less common now.
In the case of the numerous recent “insurectionist” assaults on ICE staff and facilities I would hope in every case the pols filmed engaging in assault during their PR stunts get charged appropriately.
Why doesn’t the speaker of the house (lower case deliberate) censure or otherwise discipline these cretins? There’s NO WAY these people should be able to act out like this ON THE TAXPAYERS’ DIME without some consequences. I’m sick of this crap, dropping f-bombs, lying, being incendiary. ENOUGH!
because he’s a big pussy,…he won’t even allow impeachment of judges to come up for a vote or even be discussed
You have to understand that under the Dialectical Materialism that underlies both the American Democrats and indeed the Western Left; no amount of physical evidence, testimony, or mass of witnesses can convict any Democrat or Leftist of doing anything wrong. It is a matter of theology, and they will deny their acts forever.
We have different Social Contracts.
Subotai Bahadur
This is Jersey. Not a snowballs chance in hell a Dem will be convicted, unless they piss of the Dem leadership, right Menendez.
Let’s not forget the Dialectial Matriarchalism.
It’s always some crazy, power-mad Karen.
The only effective way to deal with leftists is to regard them as members of a satanic cult.
They “believe” in things that are contrary to proof, and you would have equal amounts of success trying to convince a Hindu to eat a hamburger as you would have trying to convince a leftist that their ideas are destructive and evil.
They are members of what Dennis Prager has called “the most dynamic religion in the world” today (a rough paraphrase, I am afraid).
Black commie, business as usual
Nothing to see here
“This is her job as a member!”
The Capitol Building is the “people’s house.” is it not?
What is our job as owners?
EXACTLY!!!
our civilized desires cause lefty to become violent…just ask them
Angry Fat Black Woman – the bane of society today followed by white elitist middle aged progressive women often childless (or should be) single or with a simp husband or divorced with 4 cats and countless box wines followed by young progressive ignorant stupid entitled “womyn” who live to fight the patriarchy (such as it is). Save us Obi-wan Trump. You’re our only hope.
“(We were) there for an oversight visit.” – Rep. McIver
If they want to visit an office not under the direct control of Congress, they need an appointment. Note that this creature is almost certainly one of those who objected to DOGE, acting under the direction of the POTUS, entering executive branch offices and auditing executive branch records. But she thinks she can just waltz up to a secure federal facility and can just walk in.
Even if it is under Congress’s direct control, they need an appointment — and can be denied one. Just as a shareholder in a company can’t barge in to a facility owned by that company, and can’t even demand an appointment.
And the analogy to DOGE is perfectly accurate.
Well, it turns out we were all wrong. Members of Congress are indeed entitled to enter any facility used by DHS to detain or house aliens, without notice, for the purpose of conducting oversight.
Public Law 118–47 (the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024), § 527.
Public Law 119-4 (The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations
and Extensions Act, 2025) § 1101 (6):
Oversight? That’s not how it works. Schedule a visit and they can inspect the facility. What they cannot be allowed to do is just show up, barge in, defy commands to exit, push/shove facility personnel especially when in the context of a prisoner transfer. They chose to trespass, commit acts of violence and disrupted operations at the facility. Bad PR and slings and arrows from legacy media and ‘activists’ gotta be ignored here and arrests must be made to reestablish the basic norms that such stunts will not only be rebuffed but will carry very high personal consequences.
Hold on, from the beginning of this incident I have seen conflicting reports — even here on LI — on whether the congressmen were breaking in, or invited on an official tour. One version said that they were there officially and Baraka unexpectedly tried to join them, the other said that all four of them were intruders. The original post here on LI said both, in different parts, and didn’t note the contradiction.
I think you may be correct, although I’ve yet to see an update that confirms your suspicion (I just got up, it’s early). However, the alternative story would explain why the reps weren’t arrested on the spot – they weren’t trespassing. But, due to the fracas that occurred (likely because of the arrest of the mayor) charges are now being considered for the assaults on the federal officers by the reps (who were invited). Either way, arrests of the reps are in order.
Yes. Congressional immunity doesn’t cover assaults.
she is your superior
just ask her
So we should just believe what they tell us and ignore the factual video evidence, because as all wokesters know, facts are racist!