June 4 (UPI) -- The Democratic mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, has sued the Republican U.S. district attorney of New Jersey over his arrest last month outside of a prison being transformed into a detention facility to hold migrants arrested in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
The lawsuit, announced Tuesday, accuses District Attorney Alina Habba and Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel of the Newark Division of Homeland Security Investigations of violating Baraka's rights by arresting him without cause, initiating a malicious prosecution and committing defamation.
"They abused their power to violently arrest me at Delaney Hall despite being invited inside," Baraka said in a statement Tuesday.
"No one is above the law."
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