Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba , alleging his constitutional rights were violated and that she defamed him after he was arrested at an ICE facility last month.

Baraka’s 17-page lawsuit filed Tuesday also names as a defendant Ricky Patel, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge of the Newark division. The Democratic mayor accuses Patel and Habba of violating his Fourth Amendment rights because of the “false arrest” and the “malicious prosecution” that followed.

On May 9, three New Jersey U.S. House representatives arrived at Delaney Hall, a newly-opened ICE facility in Newark operated by GEO Group, a private prison company. The public officials said they wanted to inspect the facility, and Baraka was invi

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