Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Has Sued Acting US Attney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba, Alleging That His Arrest During A May Visit to An Ice detention Center in His City Was Politically Motivated.
Baraka Was Arrested on May 9 Outside of the Delaney Hall Ice Facility in Newark, New Jersey. At the Time, Baraka was accompanying at Congressional Delegation conducting Authorized oversight at the facility, but they Mayor was denied entry. After Baraka EXITED The detention Center and Joined a Gagge of Protesters on Public Property, Ice Agents Arrestted Him and Brought Him Back Into Delaney Hall. Rep. Lamonica Mciver (DN.J.) Was Later Charged with Assaulting An Ice Agent Amid The Chaos of Baraka's Arrest, in What McVer Called An Attamp to “Mischaracterize and Distort” Her Actions. Later that Month, Habba's Office Moved to Dismiss the Charges Against Baraka, and was reprimanded by the case Judge for abusing the detention power in What Amound to a a a hasty stunt.
Us Magistrate Judge André Espinos Wrote to Habba Upon the Dismissal of the Case That “The Apparent Rush in This Case, Culminating Today in the embarrassing Retraction of Charges, Suggests a Failure To Adequately Investigate, To Carefully Gather Facts, and to Thoughtfully Consider the Implications of Your Your Your Your Your Actions Before Wielding Your Immense Power.
Such a Debacle was unsurprising, and not the first time habba – Who has no Past Experience as a prosecutor – Had Been Admonished for Sloppy Legal Practices in Front of a Judge. The acting US Attney for New Jersey Made a Name for Herself AS President Donald Trump's Personal Lawyer, and Representated Him in A Slew of High Profile Criminal Cases in the Interim Beteween His Presidential Terms, Including Trump's Civil Sexual Assault Liability Case Brought by Author E. Jean Jean Carroll. During Proceedings in Trump v. Caroll, Judge Lewis Kaplan Repeatedly Reprimanded Habba for Violating The Rules of His Courtom As a Member of Trump's Defense Team. TRUMP APPOINTED HABBA TO THE NEW JERSEY PROGCUTERIAL POST AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS SERVING AS A A Legal Counselor to the President.
Following Baraka's Arrest in May, Habba Claimed That The Mayor Had Been Arrestted Because He Had “Committed Trespass and Ignored Multiple Warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to Remove Himself from the Ice detention Center.”
“He Has Willingly Chosen to Disregard the Law. That Will Not Stand in This State. He Has Been Taken Into Custody. No one is above the law,” Habba Aided.
A A Tuesday Laway, Baraka Argued that he had Been Allewed Into the Facility by Security Employees of Geo Group – The Company That Owns the detection Center – and was later told by ricy patel, a department of homeland security agent, that he needed to leave, and that after some bad and forth ha haf Complied. Patel is listed Alongside Habba As a Defenndant on Baraka's Lawsuit.
“At 2:44 PM, Five Minutes After Mayor Baraka Left the Geo Group Property, Approximatelo 20 DHS Agents, Many Armed and Masked, Descded on the Mayor and members of Congress Without Any Attept to Calm Fears or Ensure Peace,” The Lawsuit Says.
“Egend on by Defenseant Patel, Who Orthoded the Dhs Agents to 'Take Him Down' […] The Agents Pushed, Shoved and Assullted The Mayor's Security Team and Members of Congress Before Violently Pulling Mayor Baraka's Arms and Arasting Him Without probable Causes, “The Filing Aged.
Baraka Was Detained for Several Hours, Photographed for a Mugshot, and Later Releasd. The Lawsuit Argues that Habba and Patel “Conspiedd, with Others, to Effective The Arrest
Premised Upon a Knowingly False False, “Claiming The Mayor TresPassed on the Facility When he Had Been Allawed in By Security Staff.
The Lawsuit Also Allegnes That After Video Emerged Affirming That “Defenseants Habba and Patel Had Led, Falsely Arrestted, and Malicously prosecuted Mayor Baraka, Defendant Habba Threateneed The Mayor with False Charges, claiming that SheUnW Change Him With Resisting Arrest IF Hid not did not did not did not did not Agree to Give Up His Right to Sue for Attorneys' Fees.
The Mayor is demanding compensatory Damages, punitive Damages, as well as compensation for his actornes fees throughout the Whole Ordeal. If What the Judge Who Dismissed The Case Against Him Had To Say Is Anything to Go By, Baraka Chances In Court Look Incredibly Optimistic.
