🚨 JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka SUES interim US Attorney Alina Habba for “false arrest and malicious prosecution.”
The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city is suing the Trump administration for “malicious prosecution” after federal prosecutors dropped a criminal charge against him for allegedly trespassing at an immigrant detention facility.
Attorneys for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who is one of the six Democratic candidates running for governor, say interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba “directed and ratified the unlawful arrest” of Baraka. Then, they say, Habba acted as a “political operative,” defaming him in inflammatory statements on social media and in TV interviews.
Baraka was arrested for allegedly trespassing last month at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility owned by a private prison company and recently opened under the Trump administration. The charge was later dropped for what Habba said was the “sake of moving forward.”
