Details about federal assault charges filed against a New Jersey member of Congress were made public in charging documents released on Tuesday.
On Monday, Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, was charged with two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding certain officers or employees over a hectic altercation that occurred outside of a federal immigration detention center in Newark earlier this month.
The incident unfolded on May 9, at the recently reopened Delaney Hall — a facility operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A scuffle there ensued after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka attempted to accompany McIver and two other members of the Garden State’s congressional delegation — Bonnie Watson Coleman and Robert Menendez Jr. — as they exercised their oversight powers…