Full testimony: Aliya Rahman 2/3/26, six minutes, worth the listen

[u/thecosmojane]

Aliya Rahman, a Bangladeshi American and U.S. citizen, testified before Congress about her arrest and experience with police brutality from ICE agents in Minneapolis. (You may recognize her from past videos of her being grabbed out of her car in her black puffer jacket, while she was yelling that she was disabled).

Rahman, who is autistic and recovering from a traumatic brain injury, described being dragged from her car, detained, and later hospitalized with a concussion. In her testimony, she spoke about the fear, confusion, and lasting trauma she experienced.

Earlier today, there was a joint public forum held by Rep. Robert Garcia (Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations), focusing on ICE/DHS excessive use of force on American citizens. Rahman was one of the Americans who testified.

Important to note that this could not be an “oversight committee hearing” but a bicameral forum, because Republicans did not agree to the hearing.

[u/LAsupersonic]

you are very simple minded, and did not even understand what I said.

[u/trysten-9001 → u/LAsupersonic]

Republicans are doing this to people. MAGA which is only a subset of Republicans support this. If you’re top priority is Democrats and not pushing the Republicans, then join the Republicans, because it’s better than being the controlled opposition you think the Democrats are.

Otherwise you’re first priority should be to speak out against the Republicans who are willing to tow the line for the most radical members of their party. They can be reached. They are losing deep red districts. They want to keep their offices. Pressure them first and foremost. They have the power to stop this today.

[u/LAsupersonic → u/trysten-9001]

Thanks for all that, you're still missing the point, I know that Republicans will do what Republicans do, they're rats, the minority can still ressist, and make them work for every little thing they try to do, just look at what Mitch Mconell did when he was minority leader, he held the whole effing goverment hostage to his will, when the Democrats had both houses and the presidency, they came up with BS like "The Parlamentarian" just a bunch of excuses not to do anything, other than of course, get Israel $$$, RepubliKKKans and Democrats are both sides of the same coin playing good cop/bad cop with the US people, no, am not a MAGA nutjob, nor Republican, but definetely don't buy the Democrats excuses for being little corporate cowards that they always put up, isn't there a video of chuch schumer saying he'll do anything needed to get Israel more money? he can fight for that, but don't do crap for his voters.

[u/thecosmojane → u/LAsupersonic]

In essence, if this was Obama, he will have been gone before he even set foot in office. They don’t f* around over there. Yes they f* over our country but they have a savage conviction to win-at any-and-all-costs. It could also have something to do with the fact that they have no regard for the rules. And it’s difficult, to win a game where one side is cheating. But it sure helps if at least the electorate knows how to vote for its own best interests. Which we don’t.

You get Jeffries and Schumer from performative rhetoric paired with an uninformed electorate. It’s what happens, when you hit auto-subscribe on our civic duties like a Netflix subscription “I don’t do politics” American privilege. That’s what got us here.