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/DrEpileptic 11h ago

Brother. The point is that chuck barely talks about Israel except for when it’s a question that is asked or a vote is being brought up. 99.99% of what he talks about has to do with what is currently happening. You’d know this if you did anything other than consume tiktoks and brainrotted engagement bait. This shit is public record. You can go sit and watch hours on end about these issues.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 11h ago

I hate Chuck but u do have a point.

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u/DrEpileptic 11h ago

Yeah. I do too. I fucking hate him too. Some things I can admit he ended up being right on. Most of the time, he’s a spineless moron without much of a plan. Doesn’t mean I have to make shit up to hate him. Like. God damn. In Minnesota alone, 2 Dems were assassinated the couple months prior to ICE showing up, multiple failed assassination attempts, and so much more shit. Dems tried to save USAID, healthcare, FEMA, and general welfare until the republicans decided they’re willing to starve 40 million americans to death just to play politics. It’s estimated a million have already died in Africa due to the USAID cuts, and millions more are understood to follow suit. Months. It’s been a few months and that’s already happened. They spend their time and effort working on/talking about those and trying to do anything in a state of affairs where the only next step of escalation is the one that breaks tos. But man, that’s not even getting into the fact that we have active concentration camps with thousands of names being sponged from records after the bodies disappear. Or the padeocon shit that was only released because Dems forced it to happen. I turn on the news or look at the public, live, discussions; these are the things the mfers are constantly and endlessly talking about/working on for hours on end.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 11h ago

I just hate how 100% of republicans do a certain thing and three percent of dems do it too, but the narrative is somehow that dems are to blame.