Rep. McIver After Being Charged with Assault: I Would Not Have Done Anything Differently Today

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McIVER: "No, I would not have. Once again, we showed up there to do a job, Kate. We were there for oversight visit. We have done this before. You know, me, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and Congressman Bob Menendez was just at a facility just a couple of weeks ago, not too far from this location, where we had an oversight visit and we were a little bit delayed, but not, you know, confronted or was in the middle of a chaos to do so. I think, number one, we have an obligation to do so. We have to show up and do our jobs. And at the end of the day, the reason why we were there is because we wanted to make sure this facility was up to par, that it was clean, that it was safe, and that the detainees there were, you know, given due process, that they were able to use the phone, that they were able to speak to their legal representation, which we found out was not happening.”