Grand Jury Hits Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver with 3-Count Indictment
If convicted, McIver faces a maximum penalty of 17 years behind bars.
Could it be that we’re seeing just a little bit of accountability for the Left? On Tuesday, we saw ABC News correspondent Terry Moran fired over a toxic social media post, California Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down by a Clinton-appointed judge, and before the day was through, we learned that a grand jury had returned a three-count indictment against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver. She is being charged with “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers.” If convicted, the combative congresswoman faces a maximum penalty of 17 years behind bars.
In the body cam footage below obtained by independent journalist Benny Johnson, McIver is seen trying to force her way into a Newark, New Jersey, ICE detention center last month. She is heard shouting at the agents, “I’m filing a complaint. You don’t dare talk to a congresswoman like that.” At one point, she yells, “I touch whoever I want mother fu****!” Classy lady.
🚨BREAKING: I have obtained exclusive ICE officer body cam footage clearly showing Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally and physically assaulting federal agents in New Jersey after illegally entering an ICE detention facility.
In the video you can see indisputable evidence of… pic.twitter.com/msAQBz23oJ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 10, 2025
McIver’s indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba in a social media post which read:
Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of 8 years for Count One, an additional maximum penalty of 8 years for Count Two, and a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison for Count Three.
As I have stated in the past, it is my Constitutional obligation as the Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties. While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve.
Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.
Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of 8 years for Count One, an…
— US Attorney Habba (@USAttyHabba) June 10, 2025
Shortly after the May 9 incident, Habba’s office charged McIver with “violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.”
The criminal complaint, which can be viewed here, states that McIver “did forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere with a person designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114.”
A sworn statement contained in the complaint from Robert Tansey, a special agent with the Newark Division of the Department of Homeland Security, states:
14. McIVER slammed her forearm into the body of V-1, a uniformed HSI agent. She also reached out and tried to restrain V-1 by forcibly grabbing him.
15. Following the arrest, McIVER also pushed an ICE officer (V-2) and used each of her forearms to forcibly strike V-2 as she returned inside the secure area of the facility.
🚨 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. pic.twitter.com/TV00uwRtKq
— US Attorney Habba (@USAttyHabba) May 19, 2025
On Tuesday evening, McIver published a brief statement on X in which she maintained her innocence and called the indictment a “brazen attempt at political intimidation.” She added that she looks forward to her day in court. [We do too.]
This indictment is no more justified than the original charges. I will not be intimidated. My full statement: pic.twitter.com/C0aZyrnNx8
— Rep. LaMonica McIver (@RepLaMonica) June 10, 2025
According to the New York Post, “By law, members of Congress are authorized to go into federal immigration facilities as part of their oversight powers, even without notice. Congress passed a 2019 appropriations bill that spelled out the authority.”
McIver, 38, is new to Congress. Following the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr., she won a special election in September and secured a full term in November. Prior to that, she served as the president of the Newark City Council and worked in the city’s public school system, as per the Post.
This incident was not the first time McIver made national headlines. She first came to our attention during the early days of DOGE. After Elon Musk’s team pulled back the curtain and exposed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as little more than a global charity for progressive causes in early February, a large group of House Democrats gathered outside of the Treasury Department building to let their voices be heard.
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver bellowed into the microphone, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And godd*** it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!”
Rep. LaMonica McIver: "GODDAMN IT SHUT DOWN THE SENATE…. WE ARE AT WAR." pic.twitter.com/PtytpbIl4M
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 4, 2025
Considering McIver only arrived in Washington nine months ago, she’s certainly made one heck of a splash, hasn’t she?
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“McIver, 38, is new to Congress……she won a special election in September and secured a full term in November.”
Oh Honey, welcome to the big leagues… where they play hardball. Too bad you decided to try a grandstand play when the Giants are in town.
Her muffin-top belly is a lethal weapon.
I’m unclear – is assault with a deadly belly a felony? Or just a misdemeanor?
“Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment”
Ham Sandwich Down!
What a trashy woman she is.
These d/prog members of Congress have a bad case of ‘main character syndrome’. They don’t have the ‘plot armor’ they believe they should have. Can a sitting member enter a facility? Sure. Do the folks running the facility have to balance out the safety, security and operational routine of the facility with not just a member of Congress arriving unannounced/demanding entry but also with the safety of that member? Yes again.
Bottom line is she can absolutely enter but not on her terms without any minimal coordination to ensure operations are not interrupted and with a view towards the safety and security of everyone; detainees, staff and visitors. That’s just common sense to balance out the competing responsibilities and duties of the folks charged with running the facility.
What she can not do is put hands upon someone else, particularly not a LEO who has issued a lawful command to move away temporarily while arrangements are made to accommodate the visit. She definitely can not attempt to interfere in the lawful detention/arrest of a 3rd party by striking a LEO. No member of Congress is immune from prosecution for battery and obstruction/interference with LEO.
Hopefully she enters another facility for an extended stay.
The vile, lawless, entitled, arrogant, narcissistic and subversive Dhimmi-crat fifth columnists — Party apparatchiks and rank-and-file members, alike — are so used to being coddled, whitewashed and enabled by the Dhimmi-crat media, federal and state prosecutors and courts, that accountability is a totally alien concept to them.
She’ll scream race and it will be over before it starts.
Don’t be surprised if they erect a statue of her in front of the federal courthouse prior to the trial. Something subtly noble, like with her arm on George Floyd’s shoulder. I’m pretty sure the Newark, NJ jury will acquit her of all past and future charges. Expect some good theater. Cory Booker will be SO jealous.
Democrats don’t know how to erect statues.
They topple statues. They erect effigies.
“I am a woman ‘of color;’ hear me whine.”
More like “I am a m……….n’ woman of color, here me shout!”
She already tried. She thinks we are still in the old rules under Biden. Now she is firmly in FO phase of FAFO. Johnson needs to immediately move to expel her. No one is above the law, isn’t that what we’ve been told?
An expulsion motion would have no chance of passage unless she’s convicted. So long as she still hopes to avoid a conviction her fellow Dems won’t vote to expel her.
It’s possible that a plea bargain would include resignation.
You can take her out the hood but you know the rest
That’s “out da hood”
Far too many elected officials believe they are nobility.
Indeed. Our parasite class longs for and works toward a pure feudal system.
Same issue with the judiciary but far worse.
Yup. Long past time someone talks to her like that.
The pictures show intentional hitting of special agent.
Since these crimes are being committed coast to coast, a congresswoman must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law permits.
McIver, should be expelled from Congress ASAP and convicted ASAP.
I’m pretty sure you won’t be permitted on the jury.
Lie to get on the jury, then hang her.
from fake charges against trump to real provable charges against communistnazi thuggery
she’ll still only get a slap on the pork
Yet Another Congressional Narcissist, determined that she must always be right no matter how wrong she is.
Convict her. Imprison her. Expel her from congress.
I suppose she can be considered a Prisoner of War now.
she is correct on this:
we are at war
and only the ostriches aka the gop have not reacted in kind to that truth
U.S. Attorney Alina Habba
Please tell me she goes by the nickname “Ali”. Because “Ali Habba” would be such a fun nickname.
Does she have forty thieves?
That should be a stretch goal for her in her annual assessment. “To arrest and convict at least 40 looters.”
She’s gonna open a can of sesame on this fool.
Ali Habba and her 40 lawyers
someone had to strip search it??
barfffffff
They weren’t concerned with weapons.
But, just like any event venue, you’re not allowed to bring outside food into the jail….
McIver thinks her race protects her from the consequences of her actions, and to a degree, she’s right. I expect a hung jury. In the event of an unlikely conviction, the sentence will be light, perhaps a small fine. She should be expelled from Congress, but I don’t think that will happen either. The Democrats will back her, and the Republicans will behave as usual. At least the public gets reminded that the GOP is a fake party. In reality, aligned with the Democrats. They hate Trump just as much, perhaps more because he’s exposed them for the fakes and poltroons they really are.
If memory serves, McIver initially claimed the video showing her actions is fake. I’m afraid I’m pessimistic for the future of America. Should the criminal syndicate called the Democratic Party regain power, they will run wild and destroy the Republic. The rot in America is too wide and deep to fix.
If she’s convicted or pleads guilty, and doesn’t resign, I expect the votes will be there to expel her.
This indictment is a yuge deal. It might finally demonstrate there is accountability for the ‘elite.’
However, I share the pessimism of so many here that she will actually face the consequences she should. Please show me otherwise, Trump, et al.
there will be accountability for the elite when Epsteins’ clients are in prison
someone should tell her:
Look,,if you get sent to jail
you can have that family reunion
Her attorney can tell her “You’ll finally meet your dad!”
You’re on video with audio, dunce, and witnesses say it happened as shown.
.
“But it’s all fake!”
“I dint do nuffin!”
(You know, like all the other of that ilk, when being arrested by cops for doing something illegal and being on video doing it.)
Once they reach 300 lbs, they think they’re invincible.
shes just another sad product of the black matriarchy welfare loving misandrist system that continues to demonize males and reward these
criminal making breeders
I’m waiting for the AI Cheap/Deep Fake defense
She already tried it.
The face and body and mouth of the democrat party. Lovely,
Darn
Race…check
Deep Fake…check
Member of Congress…check
Woman…check
Now what? I know! Muffin Top Defense!
No one is above the law right libs?
George Santos was kicked out by the R’s after he was indicted. Speaker Johnson we are looking to you to enforce the same rules for demonrats.
Why would you expect that?
Bob Menendez got all the way to a conviction before anything happened… and even then he wasn’t kicked out, he resigned.
Santos wasn’t expelled when he was indicted. He was only expelled after the House did its own independent investigation and found him to be guilty.
Another low IQ leftist, who is used to getting her way because if she doesn’t she screams ‘racism’…which she will do here as well. This pant load may finally lose some weight once she finds out she doesn’t care for prison food. Good riddance.
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