The Democrat denied trespassing at an immigration centre during a protest in the New Jersey city after he was released from custody.
Bodycam footage has captured the arrest of a US city mayor during a protest at a federal immigration detention centre.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was released from custody hours after he was detained on Friday, has denied trespassing during a confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
He was at the facility, which opened in the New Jersey city last week, with three members of Congress and witnesses said his arrest came after he tried to join them in entering the centre.
In bodycam footage released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agent can be heard telling him: « Listen, congressmen are different, congresswomen are different.
