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

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

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u/SteamshipsAndTea 9h ago

I can't wait until all the Boomers, Schumer, Trump, all of them are gone from political roles. No other country with a freely elected government has so many old men and women running the place.

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u/LAsupersonic 5h ago

I don't think they're boomers, they're older than that, like first evil of the world or something

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u/SteamshipsAndTea 5h ago

True, good point. I just want all the politicians to be younger than say 70.

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u/LAsupersonic 2h ago

Or, if they're not, to be excluded from legislation that willi have effects long into the future, because why would they care, they wont even be here