Newark mayor arrested at ICE facility claims he was 'targeted' after court hearing

Ras Baraka, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a candidate for governor, appeared in federal court Thursday for a status conference after being arrested at an ICE facility last week on a trespassing charge.

"We believe that I was targeted in this," Baraka told reporters after his court date that discussed the charge against him after he was arrested at the Delaney Hall facility last week. 

"I was the only person arrested. That's right. You know, I was the only person identified. I was the only person, you know, they put in a cell. You know, the only person, I think that was in cuffs to the whole process that's here this morning, going through this humiliation for these people."

In court, Baraka's defense team contested his arrest and declined to take a plea deal while arguing that the government has not provided enough evidence to prove that...