A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media.
Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a detention centre where she was denied medical care and lost consciousness. The Department of Homeland Security said she was an agitator who was obstructing ICE agents conducting arrests in the area.
That video is the latest in a deluge of online content that documents an intensifying immigration crackdown across the midwestern city, as thousands of federal agents make arrests amid protests against what local officials have likened to a “federal invasion.”
Rahman says she was on her way to a routine appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she encountered federal immigration agents at an intersection. Video appears to show agents shouting commands over a cacophony of whistles, car horns and screams from protesters.
Why the fuck is everyone just standing there doing nothing? For fuck sake, cause a scene or a distraction, its not that hard. Help each other.
Can we stop playing along with the narrative that this has anything to do with immigration, can’t believe this country that boasts about freedom so much is full of bootlicking idiots who are supporting this facist bullshit
You must have missed the last 200+ years of american history. If Americans supported every group denied their freedom as citizens we wouldn’t be here
That’s disturbing. If a U.S. citizen can be treated like that, it raises serious questions about due process, accountability, and how often this kind of mistake happens. People deserve answers, not silence.
Everyone gets due process, not just citizens
It makes no difference if they are a citizen or not in regards to due process, that applies to every person regardless of citizenship.
We should stop saying detained or arrested if the agents fail to identify themselves properly.
Grabbed is the lightweight but accurate one.
Snatched, kidnapped, abducted all fit.
Comply and die anyway
Yeah, but is she sufficiently white?
Jews dragged from their homes by Gestapo were German citizens also.
So ICE have murdered one person, shot another, thrown a flash bang and tear gas into a car full of children who then had to be hospitalized, attacked high schools where they beat staff and gassed students, gassed protestors, gone door to door breaking into houses and dragging out the occupants to be disappeared, pointed guns directly at citizens’ heads… and that’s just what one Canadian has seen from Minneapolis in the last few days. I have friends in Minneapolis and it pains me to see that great city being terrorized daily by this fascist government.
Don’t forget about the person they permanently blinded the other day
He was like only 21 y.o. too.
Every single one of these motherfuckers deserve a violent death.
They never tell the truth. Everyone they kidnap and assault is protester in their mind.
ICE in background trying to cover cameras.
