Rep. Ilhan Omar invited Minneapolis DHS violence victim to the SOTU...she was violently arrested and jailed.

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Democracy Now clip from this morning...some messed up shit here people.

https://www.newsweek.com/ilhan-omar-guest-arrested-accused-state-union-trump-11580147

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During Donald Trump’s speech, Rahman “started demonstrating”, which violated rules for the event, according to the Capitol police.

“The guest was told to sit down, but refused to obey our lawful orders,” the police said in a statement. “It is illegal to disrupt the Congress and demonstrate in the congressional buildings.”

Rahman was arrested for unlawful conduct and disruption of Congress, the police stated.

“No buttons, no facial expressions, no gestures, no signs, not one sound,” Rahman said. “There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are, sit down and stand up. All kinds of people were standing up all night. Me too. I stood up at the moment that I heard this man say some of the most racist things I have heard come out of any leader’s mouth about the people of my city.”

When asked about Rahman’s claim that she was standing silently, a Capitol police spokesperson told the Guardian in an email: “It’s not allowed. She was told to sit. She refused. It’s simple.”

In a statement Omar called for an investigation into the arrest. “My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time, part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with ‘unlawful conduct’,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/ilhan-omar-guest-arrested-state-union

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