Ilhan Omar Guest Arrested for Standing at Trump's SOTU

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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.

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Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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"Rahman told the Democracy Now broadcast on Wednesday that she had been standing silently before she was arrested.

"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."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-25 06:00 PM | Reply

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."

So this is where the left parts ways with the Capital Police.... LMAO

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-25 07:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

So this is where the left parts ways with the Capital Police.... LMAO

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-25 07:03 PM | Reply

It's not like the democrats beat the police with a flagpole, dip ----.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-25 07:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's not like the democrats beat the police with a flagpole, dip ----.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-25 07:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey dumb ass, at least the Capitol police didn't shoot her for not obeying orders.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-25 07:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

She wasn't storming the place to hang Pence.

You're a total moron.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-25 07:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Her disruptive activity must be on video, no?

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-25 08:00 PM | Reply

Hey dumb ass, at least the Capitol police didn't shoot her for not obeying orders.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Hey dumbf*&^, if you have to lie, you've already lost.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-26 02:08 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Good-for-no-one Islamophobe Rudy Giuliani smeared House Democrat Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as "looking too Muslim."

Irrational Islamophobia continues against America's 3.5 million Muslim-Americans who make up a mere 1% to 1.1% of the entire US population of 333 million people.

By contrast, turban-wearing Sikhs make up 1.4% to 1.7% of the entire Canadian population (41,549,684 people) and they are not as persecuted or demonized as our fellow American Muslims, although some right wingers in Canada have harassed Sikhs.

A Turban-wearing Sikh served proudly as Minister of Defense for PM Justin Trudeau.

Link: www.mediamatters.org

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-26 06:01 AM | Reply

According to Yale Law DEI grad JD Vance, the regime's thugs have "absolute immunity."

He seems to be yearning for something along the lines of Hitlerian Germany's infamous 1933 Enabling Act (en.wikipedia.org), the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich."

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-02-26 06:06 AM | Reply

JD "I want my wife to become Christian" Vance, Empty Suit Marco Rubio, Canadian-Cuban-Texan Ted Cruz, and incompetent Ron DeSatan seem to be the four GOP successors swirling around in the Republican Party toilet bowl to succeed Dummkopf Trumpf in 2028.

The Democrats need a Jimmy Carter-type of POTUS candidate in 2028 who, like the rest of us, is tired of war, ethnic cleansing, xenophobia, ICE, and economic injustice. Too bad Bernie Sanders missed his shot in 2016.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-26 06:21 AM | Reply

-Yale Law DEI grad JD Vance

really?

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-26 08:56 AM | Reply