Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest for the State of the Union address was removed from the chamber during President Trump’s speech and later arrested.
“My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time, part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with ‘Unlawful Conduct,’" Omar said in a statement.
Rahman, a Bangladeshi American, was dragged out of her vehicle by federal agents in Minneapolis last month on the way to a medical appointment. Rahman testified at a Congressional forum that she was dragged through the street and suffered severe injuries to her shoulders, leaving her unable to lift her arms normally.
Omar claims Rahman was treated aggressively again last night.
“Reports indicate she was aggressively handled until someone intervened to secure medical attention. She was taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment and later booked at the United States Capitol Police headquarters,” Omar said. "The heavy-handed response to a peaceful guest sends a chilling message about the state of our democracy. I am calling for a full explanation of why this arrest occurred.”
This is how we’ve treated the global South since inception, people are just upset it’s visible again.
Why are we stopping here? It being visible again should be enough to take action.
some people complain this comes out every time R’s are in power, like it somehow doesn’t exist when D’s are. personally, i prefer my enemies feeling comfortable enough to take their masks off (edit) because it lets me know who they are.
Well. You have them where you want them.
Step 2?
I want racists to be scared to show they’re racist, not comfortable. The less comfortable they are, the more comfortable everyone else is. What kind of logic are you following?
just that, I like my enemies out in the open
So you can what
There was some “debate” a liberal was having recently. Think it was with Hasan but don’t remember. The usual “lesser evil” bull shit. They were talking about healthcare and saying “well, if 100,000 people die without healthcare under Republicans and only 70,000 die under Democrats. Clearly that’s better”
It’s like, dude, you are just advocating for killing 70,000 people.
Eh fuck off. I’m pretty mediocre with math, but your whole schtick about “lesser evil” falls right apart when your own make believe story spares THIRTY THOUSAND lives.
You’re making your own not-point.
gotta love completely arbitrary made-up numbers when it comes to these “debates” too. hell, I would hazard to guess that the US’s godawful for-profit/ratfucking galore healthcare system kills far more than that through sheer negligence (denying claims, general expense detering use, deadly conditions that could get caught/managed early with proper proactice healthcare instead reactive (which is more lucrative), people being to afraid to call an ambulance, the list goes on).
all lives that could be saved by ditching it for some single payer/universal system, call out all these parasitic middlemen.
I was absolutely cutting into you earlier, and I stand by that. But right here, you’re nothing but correct.
Smiling foxes and snarling wolves. Or like an old saying goes, one party throws rocks unabashedly, the other throws rocks and hides their hands.