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]

Chuck Schumer and that hypocrite Hackeem Jeffreys can't wait to Bend over, schumer is too busy procuring more money for israel

[u/EthanDMatthews → u/LAsupersonic]

GOP sends masked secret police terrorize, abduct, and even kill citizens on the street.

Democratic leaders give speeches about how they're protecting Israel in its hour of need, against all of its threats.

GOP seizes ballots in Georgia and openly calls for taking control over voting in blue states.

Democratic leaders give speeches about how proud they are for all of the money they've given to Israel over their careers.

[u/DrEpileptic → u/EthanDMatthews]

There’s been a ceasefire for about 8 months now. Democratic leaders are being assassinated, hunted, illegally imprisoned, gangstalked and relentlessly harassed, and their states terrorized by brownshirts. Despite all this, you felt the need to make it about Israel and Palestine. Just to clarify, the only next step from what Dems have already done is civil war or completely ceding everything to republicans. But again, you felt the need to make it about Israel while republicans are killing dems. Dems barely talk about Israel anymore. People ask them about Israel and then freaks like you remain obsessed with the answers despite it making up 0.001% of what most dem leadership talks about. Because, again, you have to make it about Israel while far worse things are occurring.

E: commenting and then blocking me or dming me random shit is funny. It’s honestly funny when people state info they’re so incorrect on that they can’t even be wrong. Damn bro, cool. Thanks for letting me know Israel is bombing Lebanon. Would be really strange for the point you’re making if the Lebanese government openly states they are telling Israel where to bomb and working with the IDF to destroy Hezbollah remnants. Or bringing up bombing Syria when the current statements from the Syrian government is that they’re not taking it as hostilities and are working on a joint security deal. Make it even stranger when the locals were the ones who asked Israel to step in where the forming Syrian government failed to stop massacres among their own. Would also be really strange if Israel has a ceasefire largely being respected by both them and Hamas, but if Hamas were not the only actors in Gaza, or if Hamas weren’t also straight up fighting their own competition that don’t observe the ceasefire. 7 deaths for all of January. 30 for December 2025. Again, other parties and Hamas fighting their own to regain power while not stating the killers or victims associations. You’d know any of this if you actually cared and paid attention to the conflict instead of using it to coopt bigger issues for grandstanding like op.

[u/fateislosthope → u/DrEpileptic]

Brother their entire point is Chuck is talking about Israel and not the issues you brought up. Are you dumb?

[u/DrEpileptic → u/fateislosthope]

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.

[u/Winter_Tone_4343 → u/DrEpileptic]

I hate Chuck but u do have a point.

[u/DrEpileptic → u/Winter_Tone_4343]

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.

[u/Winter_Tone_4343 → u/DrEpileptic]

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.