Aliya Rahman Wants To Unmask the ICE Agents Who Dragged Her From Her Car

Aliya Rahman, a disabled Minneapolis resident who says federal immigration agents dragged her from her car and denied her medical care, has sued the federal government for assault and false imprisonment. She hopes the case will help others seek accountability and allow the officers involved to be identified.

Rahman says six masked officers arrested her last January despite her claims that she was a US citizen, and that she later blacked out in a cell. After an earlier claim and a complaint to a DHS civil rights office went unanswered, she filed the lawsuit; her lawyer says the officers’ names and records can be sought through the case. The wider Operation Metro Surge led to an estimated $700 million in damage to Minneapolis, while DHS says 4,000 people were detained.