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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majority in the lower chamber after midterm elections.
“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.
The House minority leader has lauded Democrats’ push for redistricting nationwide in an effort to pick up additional House seats and signaled that the party will advocate more for working-class Americans, after Democrats saw losses from the key demographic in the 2024 election.
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PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves
Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷♀️
ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling.
The incident occurred just blocks away from where, a week earlier, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good. “I constantly wondered if I was going to die,” Rahman said.
After the officers handcuffed her, they lifted her from her hands and her feet and carried her away.
“I do remember facing the ground and feeling pressure on my neck, which, because of my brain injury, was extremely painful for me,” she said.
The viral video ends with Rahman being dragged out and carried away by several officers. What transpired after that wasn’t captured on camera, but Rahman recalled how quickly things unraveled.
“After I was violently dragged from my car, I was put in the back of a car with three federal agents, where they laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Rahman said.
Rahman was then taken to the Whipple Federal Building, where many people are detained after being swept up by ICE agents. Throughout her detention, Rahman kept reminding the officers that she is autistic and disabled, but no one seemed to care.
“I was repeatedly denied medical care, disability accommodations, and access to a mobility aid when I asked for my cane. Eventually, I insisted that they look for a wheelchair. When they found one and I was placed in it, I was told that my legs must work if I had been driving,” Rahman recalled. No one asked for her ID or proof of citizenship after she was detained, Rahman said, nor was her face scanned.
Rahman eventually fell unconscious, and so does not know what happened next. She knows she was moved to the Hennepin County Medical Center and eventually let go that day.
These claims read as racially biased. Ask Black men how often they get the benefit of the doubt during a traffic stop. We have years of documented cases where routine vehicle encounters turned deadly for Black drivers. So when others seem to get a pass, it is hard not to see a double standard.
PoCs and disabled folks both get treated like shit by the cops. That’s been the fascist MO for a long time. I don’t think expressing outrage at the treatment is racially biased. Was Rodney King biased against Hispanics because he expected the police not to drag him out of his car and beat him up on the side of the freeway?
For black drivers. For poor drivers. For handicapped drivers. For anyone who isn’t fluent in English. Women - particularly young women - in police custody experience a heavily unreported incidence of sexual assault.
I don’t think this woman was asking for “a pass”. I think she was objecting to being hog-tied and abused until she’d fallen unconscious.