"He stated that he was charged on Sept. 18 with a class C federal misdemeanor for obstructing the usual use of that federal property or that 10-floor elevator lobby. Lander, however, railed that ICE using a courthouse is not a usual use. They are not usually used as a detention facility. They're not usually used as a place where masked federal agents who don't present warrants or give reasons for charges, separate families, haul people violently away and make them sleep on the floor. That is not the usual use of the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a federal office building paid for by taxpayers, Lander said."
"What I will say is someone was unreasonably obstructing the usual use of the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza on the 18th of September. But it was not me, it was ICE age."
"Attorney Deirdre von Dornum stated that in order to prove an obstruction, they would also have to prove its usual use. We made clear in court today, and will continue to, that what we believe it is necessary for the government to prove obstruction of the usual use is what use was ICE making of that 10th floor in September, becaus"
Brad Lander faced federal arraignment on a Class C misdemeanor charge alleging obstruction of the usual use of the 10th-floor elevator lobby at 26 Federal Plaza on Sept. 18. Lander argued that ICE’s detention activities and use of the courthouse on that floor are not the floor’s usual use, citing masked agents, lack of warrants, family separations, and people forced to sleep on the floor. Lander asserted that someone unreasonably obstructed the floor that day but attributed the obstruction to ICE rather than to himself. Defense counsel says the government must prove the floor’s usual use to establish obstruction and will challenge evidence about the elevator bank.
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