Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba, alleging that his May arrest at an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention center in the city he governs was an act of political retribution.

“This is not about revenge or not about me going after individuals because I think they’ve wronged me specifically,” Baraka said at a news conference after filing his lawsuit, which accuses Habba of false arrest and malicious prosecution. “Ultimately I think this about them taking accountability for what has happened to me, what went on in the newspapers and the press, people saying that I went down there and got arrested on purpose, all these kind of things, I think this kind of defamation is out of line and I think th

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