'What the F is wrong with you?': Black lawmakers rip Trump admin for charging Rep. McIver over ICE standoff

[Eugene]

Source: theGrio

‘What the F is wrong with you?’: Black lawmakers rip Trump admin for charging Rep. McIver over ICE standoff

Gerren Keith Gaynor
Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM EDT 3 min read

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and others vow to hold the Trump administration accountable for what they say is an abuse of power.

“What the F is wrong with you?” said U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, in a video reacting to the Trump administration criminally charging Rep. LaMonica McIver over an encounter she and other members of Congress had with ICE agents earlier this month.

McIver, a freshman representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, has been charged with assaulting, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement. The charges were announced late Monday by Interim New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, who was appointed by President Donald Trump and served as his legal spokesperson before briefly serving as his White House counselor.

On May 9, Rep. McIver joined Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Robert Menendez Jr. to survey a federal immigration detention center in Newark alongside the city’s mayor, Ras Baraka, who was infamously arrested for allegedly trespassing. Video footage of the skirmish showed a chaotic scene as all three members of Congress attempted to prevent ICE agents from arresting Baraka, whose misdemeanor case was dismissed.

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[dutch777]

1. All harassment in service of intimidation. Why we must be on the streets en masse. Go to your local Hands Off rallies.

The more people in their face, the more lawsuits, the more angry noise we can make distracts them and slows them from their evil path.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Let's see...

She's a competent woman doing her job...check
She's highly intelligent...check
She's POC...check

By its standards, She's obviously a criminal and so must be charged with a crime, with the goal to eventually remove her from office somehow, and put another toady in her place.

[k_buddy762]

3. Well

The courts are going to have to decide.

[ms liberty]

4. At 53, some swat cop pokes her in the neck, then

Editing to add, looking closely, he was reaching for the man beside he's arm. Not sure he poked her but she and others reacted right then.

[k_buddy762]

5. I'm with ya

It looks bad. But there is also context that needs to be considered.

Like I said.... Looks like the courts will decide.