Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, arrested for trespassing at a federal immigration facility last week, compared his confrontation with federal authorities to the biblical King David's trials.

A Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) official confirmed Saturday that arrests of Democratic members of Congress "is definitely on the table" following a confrontation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey.

Worcester City Council moved to Zoom citing "public safety concerns," which residents criticized in a rocky remote meeting Tuesday night.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a debate Monday his actions that got him arrested days earlier at an ICE facility were "absolutely" an effective protest against President Donald Trump.

The contrast between ICE officers in camouflage fatigues and the “nice old ladies” protesting outside the immigrant detention center might have been comic if not for the guns and plastic wrist cuffs the officers carried and the violent confrontation between Newark Police and other demonstrators the night before.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, addressed the incident in a CNN appearance on Saturday.