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.
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.
If you have an accent or if your skin is a shade darker than Owen Wilson’s, you’re not actually a US citizen. Rights are for whites only.
For the love of Zoroaster, I hope I don’t need a /s for this.
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.
This is a constitutional violation. These masked thugs need to go to jail. Sue sue sue. Nothing gives them the authority to stop US citizens.
Comply and die anyway
The images speak for themselves, but every boot-sniffing, spineless suburbanite who conflates what ICE is doing with "law enforcement" and “protection” from “criminals” should take a good hard look at exactly where that leads. Every time.
It’s this right here. Uniformed thugs with rifles getting rid of State-declared “undesirables.”
“But they wouldn’t come after me.” They tell themselves, as that old quote goes.
The cops are doing this too, to the surprise of nobody. I guess terrorism isn’t against the law anymore, as long as you’ve got a uniform and an acronym, apparently.
The fact anybody’s okay with ANYBODY being treated like this on their own soil is a mirror into the rotten depravity that’s taken root in their souls.
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.
They murdered way more than that, no one gave a shit about the murders until it happened to a white lady. And really they been murdering for years. They just do the standard shithead “I’m technically within the letter of the rules so you can’t tell on me” shit where they game the system (that they set up).
Case in point: the tactic used by the guy who shot the white lady was not one of the recent hires. He’d been with ice for years and before that with border patrol. So why is he stepping in front of cars, especially when apparently he had an incident stepping behind a car somewhat recently that almost caused him grave injury? Oh and also it’s against DHS policy for agents to stand in front of, behind, or reach into vehicles:
People make mistakes but surely someone went over policy while debriefing the incident where he got dragged by a car or whatever. So why’d he do it again? Oh probably because border patrol does it regularly because if they purposely put themselves in danger it gives them an excuse to use lethal force with plausible deniability and basically never gets looked into because the overwhelming majority of the US populace couldn’t give a single shit about brown people being murdered:
Also note that in this internal review cbp points out what many have pointed out in the aftermath of this: a bullet won’t stop a car, shooting at a car runs a tremendous risk of hitting other people as it’s likely to be in a populated area, and even if you’re successful in incapacitating or killing the driver you’ve basically just created a several thousand pound missile that’s still barreling towards you (and others) with no feasible way to stop safely (which is exactly what happened here. Also note this review finds 15 cases of discharge, several of which resulted in occupants being struck.
This shit has been going on for ages and the apathy towards it in the past is part of what created the conditions for it. It’s escalating, for sure, but it’s not new at all
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.
Rioter*
Sure. Plenty of descriptors come to mind when we see how the proud boi’s and KKK treat their victims.
ICE in background trying to cover cameras.
