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Over the past two weeks, images of Aliya Rahman, a US citizen, being dragged out of her car by ICE agents as she screamed “I am disabled” have swept across social media. Rahman, a 43-year-old Minneapolis resident, was on her way to a doctor’s appointment at the city’s Traumatic Brain Injury Center on January 13, when masked agents smashed in one of her car windows, opened the driver’s side door, slashed her seat belt, yanked her out of the car, and forcibly took her away. In the seconds before they did so, visuals showed the agents yelling “Move!” at Rahman.

Speaking to The Nation on Tuesday, Rahman recalled the confusion she felt at that moment.

“As an autistic person, it was particularly difficult to understand what the officers wanted me to do,” Rahman said. “I personally experience audio sorting challenges as an autistic person. This makes it so that voices near and far are prioritized in the same way, making it difficult for me to figure out who is talking to me. Because of this, I tend to rely on reading lips. You can imagine how difficult it was for me to try to read lips when ICE officers are completely masked.”

In the videos, Rahman can be heard pleading with the officers to let her go, constantly reminding them, “I am an autistic disabled person, I am trying to go to the doctor.”

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[–] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm at a point where the one sided violence is fucking bewildering.

As an ethnicity ambiguous person (Native American), I've experienced a lifetime of first hand racism towards races I don't even belong to. But some of the shit I'm seeing and reading about is fucking astonishing that there is not more reciprocated violence. Well beyond by threshold of where I've violently defended myself.

It is impressive the restraint people have been showing to not escalate the situation. It really highlights who the aggressors are.

I really do believe we’re going to get to a “snipers and IEDs” point sooner than a lot of people seem to think

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The current mindset seems to be that the other side wants reciprocal violence, and so not to give it to them. They want to spin it as ICE trying to do their jobs and being mindlessly attacked. The current situation is giving them almost nothing to spin.

At some point it will detonate. Trump and co mean it's likely either that or folding under their boots. Holding out till the American midterms is unlikely, unless something seriously changes.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago
[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Holy clickbait title, Batman!

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 12 points 2 months ago

If we ever wanted more evidence that we're allowing the racists to run ICE, we have it right here:

“After I was violently dragged from my car, I was put in the back of a car with three federal agents, where they laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Rahman said.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"What Happened Next" should be banned from headlines.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah it will happen at the same time trump decides to hold news agencies more liable for "fake news" because he cares so much about news being honest and real...

Any day now he will have the greatest bill anyone has ever seen... oh wait it doesn't fit his narrative...

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

She's NOT Awesome anymore!

-ICE Agents (ALL of Them!) who don't know what Autism is!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Fuck these clickbait headlines

Also fuck Ice, that ain't new

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I really really really would like there to be a hell for these people.