A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
In the video, a federal officer is seen putting Mubashir in a choke hold and forcing him onto his knees in the snow as he was on his way to get food. Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.
Some other articles on this arrest:
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-leaders-say-us-citizen-was-wrongfully-arrested-by-ice-agents/
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/somali-resident-mayor-frey-to-detail-erroneous-ice-detention/
Regardless of citizenship status, he shouldn’t be put in a chokehold and assaulted for…walking down the street while being non-white? A lot of citizens are living under the illusion that citizenship status protects people from this treatment. It doesn’t, but even if Mubashir was here illegally, he didn’t deserve this. The chokehold could have killed him, and now he has to live knowing that he can’t leave his home without risking being killed by an armed gang.
Cops have been treating citizens this way from the slave patrol days. Now it’s just ramped up. “I can’t breathe!” “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”
Police got so mad when people protested this behavior for a few months.
Yup.
it’s fine, people are blowing whistles at them, that’s for SURE going to stop them…
Ignoring your bad faith sarcasm… people are blowing whistles to alert the neighborhood about ICE activity.