THIS IS HER ENTIRE TESTIMONY WORD FOR WORD & IT ABSOLUTELY SHOULD GO VIRAL:
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Note: I was meticulous & must have watched the video about a hundred times over the last 2 hours to ensure I got it right, I emphasised the words she emphasised
“Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.
My name is Aliya Rahman and I’m a resident of South Minneapolis. I’m a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin and I’m a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury. Not all autistic brains do this, but MINE fixates on sounds, numbers and patterns.
And while what the world saw happened to me EXACTLY 3 weeks ago today, on video, was a terrible violation - it is still NOTHING compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple Center. So, I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home. And I offer this DATA, because these practices must end NOW.
On January 13th, on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s Traumatic Brain Injury Center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it.
I had not wanted to pull into a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled:
‘MOVE, I WILL BREAK YOUR F•CKING WINDOW.’
Agents, on all sides of my vehicle, yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could NOT process while watching for pedestrians.
Then, the glass of my passenger side window flew across my face.
I yelled, ‘I’m DISABLED.' at the hands grabbing at me.
An agent said, ‘TOO LATE.’
I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Genoa Donald, an autistic black man, killed by police during a traffic stop in 2021. I remembered Mr. Silverio Villegas González who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.
An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and I later learned, was used to cut off my seat belt.
Shooting pain went through my head, neck and wrist when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back. I felt the pattern, and I thought of Mr. George Floyd who was killed four blocks away.
I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally. I was never asked for ID. Never told I was under arrest. Never read my rights. And never charged with a crime.
Approaching the Whipple Center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors.
I continue to hear the word ‘BODIES’ because that is how the agents refer to us.
‘We’re bringing in a BODY.’
‘They’re bringing in BODIES 7-8 at a time, Where do I put em?’
‘We can’t use that room, there’s already a BODY in there.’
You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body. Agents had to repeatedly stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my OWN neck. I asked for my cane and was told, 'No'.
Pulled up my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents, laughing and saying,
‘Walk, You can do it, walk!’
Agents did not know IF the facility had a wheelchair.
When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation, agents taunted me,
‘You were driving right? So your legs do work.’
I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.
When I became unable to speak, my cellmate pleaded for me. The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cell mate banging on the door pleading for a medic and a voice outside saying,
‘We don’t want to step on ICE’s toes.’
When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault. The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been VERY severe.
But I do NOT deserve more humane treatment than anyone else US Citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories, or see their loved ones come home.
I am EXTREMELY distressed by the pattern of violence from law enforcement [that] has been happening to black and indigenous communities for CENTURIES and to DHS survivors for over 20 years. We call ourselves a ‘civilized nation’ but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.
And I am not afraid to keep working on this problem even after ICE is gone.
Thank you for your time.”
NOTE TO #MAGA#Republicans#GOP#trumpsupporters
& ALL WHO READ THIS, FROM A STRAIGHT, WHITE, (REAL) CHRISTIAN & BIBLE SCHOLAR:
She is a powerful and extremely credible witness. Nothing in her testimony undermines that reality.
Anyone who actually watches the video can plainly see the observable effects of autism, disability, and traumatic brain injury - conditions she openly names about herself. Those realities do NOT weaken her testimony.
They make it that much MORE COMPELLING. She will be an excellent future plaintiff if she ever decides to sue the government. Which I sincerely hope she does.
For weeks, Trump and ICE supporters have called her a liar - specifically accusing her of lying about her autism, disability, and traumatic brain injury. That accusation, like so much of what you believe and repeat, is not grounded in evidence, facts, or reality. It is denial.
When people learned that she is also a software engineer and a LGBTQIA+ and racial justice activist, the attacks escalated.
The IDEA that a disabled, brown, gay woman with autism and a traumatic brain injury could ALSO be intelligent, technically skilled, articulate, and politically engaged was treated as impossible.
That disbelief does not come from reason. It comes from hate. It is rooted in ableism and the need to dehumanize disabled people so their testimony can be dismissed when it becomes inconvenient. Calling her a “liar” serves a purpose. Discrediting a disabled, brown, gay person makes it easier to excuse cruelty, violence, racism, homophobia, and a total disregard for human life while pretending to be a decent human being.
She did not lie. She is not lying now. You are the ones lying - to yourselves first, and then to everyone else. What is happening here is deliberate self-deception, used so you can live comfortably alongside cruelty, racism, homophobia, and hate without having to confront what you have become.
There is another option. It is called repentance.
Repentance begins with honesty - honesty about who you are, what you support, and the harm you are willing to excuse. Every day, I pray you find the courage to begin that reckoning. Until you do, you remain trapped in a world built on denial and hate, and that is a far more devastating condemnation than anything I could say.
- Jenny Carter | Biblical Scholar | Activist
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