"I Am Not Afraid": After ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled US Citizen Out Of Her Car On Her Way To A Doctor's Appointment, She's Speaking Out About What She Experienced In Detention

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In January, conscionable days aft an ICE cause fatally changeable Minneapolis pistillate Renee Nicole Good, ICE agents pulled Aliya Rahman from her car connected her mode to a doctor's appointment. Footage of the disturbing event rapidly went viral.

In the chaotic video, ICE agents and bystanders tin beryllium heard yelling and blowing whistles. Rahman pleads with the agents, telling them that she is disabled and conscionable trying to spell to the doctor. They unit her car doorway unfastened and propulsion her to the crushed earlier restraining her arms and carrying her away.

On Tuesday, Rahman testified astir her terrifying acquisition with ICE earlier Democratic lawmakers, and each American needs to perceive what she had to say.

Rahman said, "My sanction is Aliya Rahman, and I'm a nonmigratory of South Minneapolis. I'm a Bangladeshi American calved successful bluish Wisconsin, and I'm a disabled idiosyncratic with autism and a traumatic encephalon injury. Not each autistic brains bash this, but excavation fixates connected sounds, numbers, and patterns, and portion what the satellite saw happened to maine precisely 3 weeks agone contiguous connected video was a unspeakable violation, it is inactive thing compared to the horrific practices I saw wrong the Whipple center."

"So I americium present contiguous with the work to the radical who person not had the privilege of coming home, and I connection this information due to the fact that these practices indispensable extremity now."

"On January 13, connected the mode to my 39th assignment astatine Hennepin County's Traumatic Brain Injury Center, I encountered a postulation jam caused by ICE vehicles and nary signs indicating however to get astir it. I had not wanted to propulsion into a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to bash truthful and rolled down my model aft an cause yelled, 'Move. I volition interruption your effing window.'"

"Agents connected each sides of my conveyance yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process portion watching for pedestrians. Then the solid of the rider broadside model flew crossed my face. I yelled, 'I'm disabled,' astatine the hands grabbing astatine me, and an cause said, 'Too late.'"

"I felt immersed successful a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic Black antheral killed by constabulary during a postulation halt successful 2021. I retrieve Mr. Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was killed by ICE successful his conveyance past year."

"An cause pulled a ample combat weapon successful beforehand of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and aboriginal learned was utilized to chopped disconnected my spot belt. Shooting symptom went done my head, neck, and wrists erstwhile I deed the crushed face-first, and radical leaned connected my back. I felt the pattern, and I thought of Mr. George Floyd, who was killed 4 blocks away."

"I was carried facedown done the thoroughfare by my cuffed arms and legs portion yelling that I had a encephalon wounded and was disabled. I present cannot assistance my arms normally. I was ne'er asked for ID, ne'er told I was nether arrest, ne'er work my rights, and ne'er charged with a crime."

"Approaching the Whipple center, I saw achromatic and brownish bodies, shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to perceive the connection 'bodies,' due to the fact that that is however agents notation to us. 'We're bringing successful a body.' They're bringing successful bodies seven, 8 astatine a time. 'Where bash I enactment them? We can't usage that room. There's already a assemblage successful there.' You person nary crushed to judge you volition marque it retired live if you are already being called a body."

"Agents repeatedly had to halt and inquire however to bash tasks. I received nary aesculapian screening, telephone call, oregon entree to a lawyer. I was denied a connection navigator erstwhile my code began to slur. Agents laughed arsenic I tried to immobilize my ain neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up my arms, and prodded guardant successful limb irons by agents laughing and saying, 'Walk. You tin bash it. Walk.' Agents did not cognize if the installation had a wheelchair."

"When I was yet placed successful 1 to beryllium taken to interrogation, an cause taunted, 'You were driving right? So your legs bash work.' I pleaded for exigency and aesculapian attraction for implicit an hr aft my imaginativeness had go blurry, my bosom complaint went done the roof, and the symptom successful my cervix and caput became unbearable. It was denied. When I became incapable to speak, my cellmate pleaded for me. The past sounds I retrieve earlier I blacked retired connected the compartment level were my cellmate banging connected the door, pleading for a medic, and a dependable extracurricular saying, 'We don't privation to measurement connected ICE's toes.'"

"When I opened my eyes astatine Hennepin County's exigency room, I learned I was brought determination to beryllium treated for assault. The impacts of DHS detention connected my physical, intelligence and fiscal good being and information person been precise severe, but I bash not merit much humane attraction than anyone else, US national oregon not, and I americium present contiguous with a beardown tone and a work to the galore radical who haven't had the privilege to archer their stories oregon spot their loved ones travel home."

"I americium highly distressed by the signifier that unit from instrumentality enforcement has been happening to achromatic and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for implicit 20 years. We telephone ourselves a civilized nation, but we deficiency rules and accountability astir what a idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium instrumentality enforcement is permitted to bash to different quality being. I americium not afraid, and I'm not acrophobic to support moving connected this occupation adjacent aft ICE is gone. Thank you for your time."

You tin ticker the video of her grounds here.

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