Baraka “was put under arrest inside the facility, walked out when he was told he was under arrest, and then was cuffed,” she said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
However, Newark City Councilmember Kenyatta Stewart, who was with the mayor at the time of his arrest, rebuked that.
“They invited him in. A Geo security guard actually opened the door for him,” Stewart told The Post. “Then, as we were waiting for the congressman, they asked him to leave, and he did, and they arrested him outside the gate.”
Of course, I’m not saying the mayor will be able to utilize a local department to go to war with the feds or something, like they’re his personal army. But mayors do have some control over their local police departments. It’s not totally divorced.