Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
So this guy was free to just get out of that SUV and walk away, right? He made it clear he was an American citizen, after all.
If it were me, and I were having a bad day like I do sometimes, I might do that, asking them to shot me.
“Make my day. Fuck me up bad for the camera! Oink oink piggy!”