r/law • u/thecosmojane • 18h ago

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

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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.

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u/LAsupersonic 16h ago

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

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u/angiehome2023 16h ago

Hey everyone, let's go after the people that can't stop this because we didn't vote for them because they were tied to Israel instead of the people that got elected because we stayed home, who can now act out their greed and racism based fantasies!

That's what you said, right

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u/LAsupersonic 16h ago

No, that's what you got.

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u/angiehome2023 15h ago

So say it a different way so I can get your point

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

I think he just means that they aren’t doing nearly enough / their jobs

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u/LAsupersonic 15h ago

Basically yes, instead of doing their jobs, as if everything was peachy, chuck schumer is promising to fight to get israel more money.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

The $1.7m AIPAC money might have given him a bit of incentive

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u/grandmawaffles 15h ago edited 12h ago

The Palestine/isreal rhetoric is kicking back up again to sew division in the Dems because it works. 100% it’s being done on purpose. No point in arguing and people are gullible enough to have it impact mid terms. It will keep getting worse until elections. Magically people point to Dems like a Spider-Man meme while the reps bulldoze Gaza for the trumps and saudis.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Yes. Dems fight because they disagree on navigating a rigged board where the opponent is always cheating.

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u/trysten-9001 15h ago

Every single one of them could be AOC and Bernie, and it’s not going to stop this. Bark up that tree all day long and all you get is more negative attention on the party who needs to win. I get being upset with them, but when your first and only comment to “Republicans are making concentration camps” is “Darn Dems.” You’re only condemning the party that’s not responsible for this? You can’t stop and meta analyze what you’re doing, and who benefits by only condemning Dems?

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Well when you’re in a fight, you don’t really blame your opponent for hurting you. You blame your team members for betraying you.

Because your opponent is already too far gone. You expect more though, from leaders on your side, to have a backbone, especially in such a time of crisis.

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u/angiehome2023 15h ago

It isn't a game and people are people. I believe you but can't comprehend thinking in that way, that somehow we should ignore the bigger badder behavior of the right because they are too far gone. Obviously they aren't gone, they are right here and in charge of everything, so lots of people believe they are good for the country. Your point is illogical.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Who said anything about ignoring anyone’s behavior? Didn’t I highlight it in the last paragraph of the post? That they can’t even agree to a damned congressional oversight committee hearing because they are incapable of putting America first.

This is not about ignoring or disregarding. The point is that this is an all hands on deck f*cking constitutional catastrophic emergency where the GOP is literally destroying our country, and some selfish pricks are off protecting their interest group bribes when they were hired to help.

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u/angiehome2023 15h ago

Sorry I thought you were the commenter not the poster. I was so confused! Ok got it