During an interview on Saturday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin spoke with CNN reporter Victor Blackwell about the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an ICE facility protest.
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00:00That's the next question. But re-rack that video, re-rack the video I just showed of the mayor being welcomed in by this security person, right?
00:10This is how the mayor got on to the facility's property. You said they stormed in next to a bus.
00:15They did storm it and you're not showing the video, Victor.
00:18You are not showing the video. I'd love for you to show the video as well,
00:22where a sitting congresswoman, LaMonica McIver, was body slamming, body ramming, striking with her fist, pushing, shoving, whatever you want to call it, assaulting ICE officers.
00:34Exactly. American people should know who's in that facility that they are so desperately trying to get out.
00:40Members of MS-13, known terrorists, child rapists, murderers.
00:45These are the worst of the worst, Victor, and the fact that these city members of Congress and this mayor continue to defend these actions is wrong.
00:53Sure. We're now playing the video that you posted after our interview.
00:57This is the video you posted.
00:58You claimed that Congresswoman LaMonica McIver body slammed someone.
01:04That was your term, not a term I introduced.
01:07I looked up body slam because I thought I knew what it meant when you sent videos that you claimed show a body slam.
01:15Oxford, Cambridge, those dictionaries say that it's a wrestling move where someone is lifted off the ground and slammed onto the ground.
01:27I don't see that in this video.
01:28So how do you...
01:29Victor, body slammed, body rammed, punch, shoved, push, whatever you want to call it.
01:35If you all want to watch...
01:36Not what I want to call it.
01:37What do you want to call it?
01:38Look at that right there.
01:38If you want to watch...
01:40Viewers should watch for themselves that that's fitting for a city member of Congress to be assaulting ICE officers.