congresswoman Lam Monica Macyver has been indicted on three federal charges for her involvement in a confrontation outside an ICE facility in Newark last month new Jerseys interim US attorney Alina Haba announced the grand jury indictment Tuesday in a social media post federal prosecutors alleged MacGyver assaulted two immigration officers and interfered with their work during what they described as an unauthorized protest at Delaney Hall in the post Haba wrote in part "While people are free to express their views they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve."

Now Macyver and two other New Jersey Democratic Congress members were attempting to conduct an oversight visit at the detention center which they said had opened without proper permits a protest was taking place at the same time that's also when Newark Mayor Raz Barco was arrested macyver is calling the indictment a quote brazen attempt at political intimidation and said she'll plead not guilty