Cold as ICE

I had another article planned for today.  However, I was watching testimony yesterday of a public forum held by Congressional Democrats to examine DHS use of what witnesses say is excessive force.

And there was one young woman, Aliya Rahman, who blew me away.  I hoped the video of her testimony would be online, because if it was, I wanted to let be my “article” for tomorrow and speak for itself.  It’s that spectacular.  Happily, I tracked it down.

Many here likely have seen the video of her being stopped by ICE that prompted her appearance yesterday.  It was not only shown on the news, but repeatedly.  She's the person yelling at ICE that she was on her way to her doctor, but got dragged out of her car.  That was visceral enough -- but it's only the starting point. Her full story of that day is deeply more impactful.  And she tells it eloquently, objectively and incredibly powerfully. Her story is not what you think from that news video. That was bad enough.  This is worse.
 
Her testimony is about 6-1/2 minutes.  And every moment is charged and moving.

The shame is that the only Congressional participants at this hearing were Democrats.  All the speakers I heard were extremely moving and infuriating.  That MAGOPs missed out on this and didn't hear the witnesses -- even if only that from Aliya Rahman.  But I can understand why they weren't there:  if they heard the witness, and even if only Ms. Rahman, that would have had no plausible deniability and could only be critical of ICE and demand, not just changes, but investigations into its abuse.