Ilhan Omar Demands Full Investigation After Her SOTU Guest is Arrested
“My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech … For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders …”
Poor Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) likely felt as though she was navigating a minefield Tuesday night. After angrily lashing out at President Trump during his State of the Union address, her invited guest for the evening, Minnesota anti-ICE agitator Aliya Rahman, was arrested. And the outraged congresswoman is demanding a full investigation. According to Omar, Rahman was forcibly removed from the chamber by U.S. Capitol Police officers for merely standing silently in the gallery for a short period of time.
The New York Times reported that Rahman, 43, “could be heard shouting for someone to call Ms. Omar, and that all she had done was stand up.”
Omar issued a statement about the incident on Wednesday:
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.’
Reports indicate she was aggressively handled until someone intervened to secure medical attention. She was taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment and later booked at the United States Capitol Police headquarters.
The heavy-handed response to a peaceful guest sends a chilling message about the state of our democracy. I am calling for a full explanation of why this arrest occurred.
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…
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) February 25, 2026
Responding to a request for comment from the Times, the Capitol Police noted, “All State of the Union tickets clearly explain that demonstrating is prohibited. The guest was told to sit down, but refused to obey our lawful orders.”
Unlawful Conduct is a misdemeanor charge. Rahman faces a maximum fine of $500 and up to six months behind bars.
Rahman made headlines in January for interfering with an ICE operation in Minneapolis. Authorities said she used her vehicle to block ICE agents and ignored repeated instructions to move. The situation escalated, and agents ultimately removed her from the car after she refused to comply. Although she was detained by ICE agents, she was ultimately released without charges.
After being pulled out of the vehicle, she shouted that she was disabled and needed to get to a doctor’s appointment.
Rahman was so belligerent that the video of the incident went viral.
In February, Rahman testified at a hearing held by congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill. She told lawmakers:
I was carried facedown through the streets by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally. I was never asked for ID. Never told I was under arrest. Never read my rights. And never charged with a crime.
Woman in Minneapolis refuses to comply with federal law enforcement and instead starts driving down a street where an ICE raid was happening and riots were going on.
So she was removed from her car and detained.
Comply with law enforcement.
It’s easy.pic.twitter.com/vq5VlLVudA
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 13, 2026
After being escorted from the House chamber on Tuesday night, Rahman — who says she is disabled — was transported to a hospital. Following her release, she was arrested by Capitol Police officers.
On Wednesday morning, she found time for an interview with left-wing media outlet Democracy Now. The headline for the interview story read, “Jailed for ‘Standing Up’: DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address.”
And Rahman was very comfortable playing the role of a victim. She said she had not “just been removed and arrested,” she had been “arrested so physically that two other attendees upstairs attempted to intervene in officers pulling on my shoulders after I told them I have a torn rotator cuff tendon and multiple cartilage tears in both of my shoulders.”
Then she detailed the injuries she sustained when she was pulled out of her car by ICE agents in January.
It is unclear whether she is, in fact, disabled or not. But assuming she is, it raises some obvious questions: Why does she continue to place herself in situations where she could be injured? And why does she repeatedly refuse to comply with law enforcement instructions?
Maybe it’s because she’s a radical left-wing agitator. And, rather than being a concern, perhaps being roughed up by law enforcement is the goal.
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In his exchange with her during the State of the Union address, Trump should have asked, “How’s your brother?”
Better: How’s your brother/ex-husband.
Even for Trump that’s too much. Just, “how’s your brother?” Gets the message across. Or, “how’s your brother?” (Pause for reply if any. If she rises to the bait, then) “…and your husband?”
OK. I’ll go along with that.
It’s not just a matter of getting the message across. The simple question would have the public wondering why Trump would ask such a question in the first place, and many would go on to learn more themselves.
Sometimes, the less said, the better.
“Have you heard from your brother since the divorce?”
>> Why does she continue to place herself in situations where she could be injured? And why does she repeatedly refuse to comply with law enforcement instructions? <<
Watch a few bodycam videos. Stupid can't be fixed, it seems.
She admitted to a brain injury….
Yes but that is no excuse as we can see from Fetterman’s example.
She’s lying. If she had a brain injury she’d be making sense, like Senator Fetterman does so often.
Retarded is a disability?
Heh. They call it mentally challenged now I think. Yes, it’s a disability in their crooked book.
Jackasses do not need to be handled gently. A 2 x 4 upside the head gets their attention.
Because playing victim can make you money and get you on tv. She was nothing and had done nothing with her life, acted foolish and got pulled from a car, now she is on TV, testifying in Congress and going to the SOTU. Pretty heady stuff for a nobody. She should learn a lesson from Cindy Sheehan. Remember her? Used and thrown out.
I agree with Omar. Investigate her Somalia ass and see how many laws she’s broken.
I for one would like a full investigation on how Omar suddenly acquired $30 Million during her short stay in Congress during the Somali rampage through the MN Taxpayers and where that winery went to.
A muslim owning a winery makes a much sense as a muslim owning a pig farm. I smell a scam here.
I’m really f’8n tired of ugly Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist bigot, grifter, fabulist and subversive, Omar, and her vile ilk, perennially and dishonestly playing the aggrieved/victimized/oppressed Musilm role.
I demand a full investigation on her
“marriage” to her brother and did they
consummate the union.
and she should be charged under US
law ad deported
1. No, the “marriage” was a sham from beginning to end, and existed only on paper.
2. It’s not clear what US laws she broke, but in any case it’s far too late to charge her.
3. No matter what she did, she can’t be deported, because she’s a US citizen. So long as no defect is discovered in her naturalization, and so far no one has even seriously suggested such a defect, there is no way to annul it.
she is not a native born citizen and if show to have committed fraud and a sham marriage she
could be stripped of her citizenship and deported.
No, she could not. The constitution says that anyone born here or naturalized is defined as a US citizen. That means no one can ever take it away without the citizen’s voluntary renunciation. This is not at all controversial. It’s settled law, as settled as anything can be. The courts have spoken often and clearly. So long as the naturalization was valid it’s permanent.
Now if the naturalization were invalid, that’s a completely different story. In that case she would never have been a citizen in the first place. But no one is seriously suggesting that.
you are wrong. Naturalized citizenship is revokable,..From GOOGLE AI:
Naturalized U.S. citizenship can be revoked, a process known as denaturalization, only through federal court proceedings (civil or criminal). and requires proof that citizenship was illegally procured, involved willful misrepresentation, or concealed material facts.
Wouldn’t a naturalization based on fraud be invalid?
MarkS, did you even bother reading your own source? It says it “can be revoked” only if you can prove it was never valid in the first place. Does that make any sense to you? If something was never valid in the first place, what is there to revoke?
In any case, if you’d bothered to read what I wrote you would of course know that I wrote “Now if the naturalization were invalid, that’s a completely different story”. Obviously an invalid naturalization is already invalid, and thus doesn’t need revoking.
CaptTee, of course a naturalization based on fraud would be invalid. I wrote that in the first place. But as I wrote, no one is suggesting that her naturalization was invalid. And since it was valid, it can’t be revoked.
She got thru her father who lied about who he was on the paperwork… he/her family were part of, supporters of, the corrupt murderous group other Somalis were fleeing from. This has been discussed for years. So there are defects in her naturalization… but sure you do you and come up with some other so called legal basis to defend and protect and shield any person or any cause that is evil and anti American…. As you ALWAYS do…. You’re so tiresome
Who says that she got her naturalization through her father? Where did you read that? Or did you make it up?
And what do you know about her father’s naturalization? How do you know what statements he made at that time, let alone what statements she made, even assuming that the two naturalizations were linked?
Any false statement he made on entry to the USA might not even affect his naturalization, and certainly wouldn’t affect hers, especially if she did it on her own.
Ho Hum. Still pushing that “can’t be deported” I see. Yes, she can. Her naturalization can be reversed and she can be sent on her way. There is a guy in Miami, former mayor of North Miami I think, that has that happening to him right now.
No, her naturalization can’t be reversed, unless you can prove that it was invalid in the first place. That is the undisputed law, and anyone who says otherwise is a fucking liar.
Philippe Bien-Aime, the former mayor of North Miami, is in court because the DOJ alleges that he was never validly naturalized in the first place. It alleges that Bien-Aime is not his real name, that his real name is Janvier, and that he had falsely claimed to have self-deported, and then applied for naturalization under a false name. If it proves its case, that will mean that he was never a citizen in the first place, and nothing needs to be revoked. And that will mean that he was never validly elected to office, so his entire tenure was invalid. However if it can not prove its case, and his naturalization proves to have been valid, then nothing can revoke it, exactly as I wrote.
stood up silently in the gallery
Typical prog BS – “I was just standing silently.” Well, Skippy, that’s against the rules. I have always hated people who did that s***.
Protesting while black (or brown, or yellow, or pink, or whatever color scheme they identify as) is not a defense.
she was ultimately released without charges
And, once again, we see where the problem really lies.
This is what happens when you don’t spank disobedient children.
Complaints about being arrested within the chamber, being manhandled, being singled out because of your race/gender/orientation and that the fault lies with fascist king Donald Trump ring rather hollow when you consider the demographics of federal employees. Overwhelmingly democrats.
People like this are tiresome in the extreme.
Would be funny if they did a bouncer move on her. Just a toss out the door.
The last I checked Congress was in the Legislative Branch and President Trump is in the Executive Branch. And most of the rules in Congress were created before the Republican Party was even created.
while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled
So what? Lots of people claim lots of things when being arrested, in order to try get out of custody or restraint. They learned that from their mommies not beating their behinds when they pitched tantrums. No competent law enforcement officer gives in to this performance art at the scene. And, all you had to do was obey their commands – you could have then walked, or you could have not faced arrest at all, depending on when you started complying.
Grrrrr! Enough fisking of this critter’s bulls***. I’ll let it go now.
More importantly could she breathe?? If she could, then carry on…
I agree. We should fully investigate Omar. What kind of evil idiot do you have to be to bring someone into the House chamber when you know they will pitch a fit and get thrown out.
While they are at it we should also look into Al Green since he also brought someone that had to be thrown out.
This whole ‘I was arrested for just X normal activity’ is out of control. ‘I was arrested for driving…’ but they leave out the important facts about the DUI, in a stolen car, without a DL, going the wrong way on the interstate, transporting a kidnapped child across State line….
IMO the frequent trolling cops for lawsuits by these sorts of claims about injury requires a shift in tactics. Give the lawful command and use pepper spray followed by taser followed by compliance strikes with a baton to gain voluntary, totally submissive, enthusiastic compliance instead of getting into a wrestling match. Keep it simple and objective without any leniency/discretion by the officer to deviate (if X then Y) and I suspect within 6 months there will be a dramatic change in how folks choose to interact with LEO as word spreads and video emerges about immediate unpleasant consequences.
“I gave you my ID!” — after being asked for your driver’s license for 10 minutes, you dropped it as you were being pulled out the car and cuffed
“I was leaving!” — after being told you were trespassed and to leave the property, you drug your heels for ten minutes, then started walking back away from the property edge
“I was scared!” — which is why you acted like you were hiding a weapon/tried to hit a cop with your car/drove 90mph into oncoming traffic.
Yep. Then there’s the ‘I got kids in car’ or ‘my elderly relative in the car’.
Bump that noise. One request then one command followed by breaking the window and filling the passenger compartment with pepper spray/CS using a crowd control size fogger. When they exit add charges of endangerment and child/elder abuse. Remove the children/elderly from their care…which also ends the flow of any govt financial incentives to that unfit Parent/caregiver. Hook them up with at least one felony for child/elder abuse for causing the incident.
Stop the back and forth curbside dissertations and stop wrestling with non compliant subjects; use the less than lethal options. A busted window costs, as does a tow+ impound fee. The costs of the EMT, ambulance and ER visit made necessary due to subject refusal to be compliant should be assessed to the subject. Stop enabling their shenanigans and start imposing immediate unpleasant consequences and the shenanigans will decrease dramatically.
^1,000
What if something happens to the kid or the elder? The cop was warned, so his actions would be considered reckless and he would be criminally liable for a negative outcome. Administering a test later doesn’t help him now when the arrestee is making these claims. He has no choice but to take them seriously.
Seriously? How about all those arrestees that claim to be innocent?
Did you just lose your mask?
Because THAT is just straight up lefty BS.
You charge the driver with felony murder.
What about them? How are they relevant? Telling the arresting officer that you’re innocent doesn’t change the fact that you’re being arrested. It’s not his business to worry about your guilt or innocence. Save that for the judge.
But if you inform him that you’re injured and he ignores you and harms you, or if you tell him that there’s a child or elder in the car and he ignores you and harms that person, then he is liable. He had the duty to take reasonable care, and not just assume you were lying. So since he can’t read your mind, and thus can’t know whether you’re lying, he has to proceed as if you were telling the truth. He can’t risk ignoring your warnings. And that means that criminals who lie about such things get away with it.
Irishgladiator, the driver didn’t throw the CS gas in the car. The cop did so, having been warned that the child or elder was there. So he’s the one who gets charged with manslaughter, and/or sued without qualified immunity.
Azathoth, as usual, is a filthy slandering liar.
Everybody claims to be disabled during an arrest. Or pregnant — it’s amazing how handcuffs can cut off someone’s breathing and make them pregnant.
The problem is that some people actually are disabled or pregnant. So it’s a plausible claim, and you don’t want to injure them if it’s true. And not everyone deliberately gets themselves arrested. Most people who are arrested weren’t actually looking for it.
Milhouse, one of my biggest fears is that I get some overzealous enforcer screaming for me to get on my knees, or put my hands high over my head. I can do neither.
Omar can pound sand.
This has got nothing to do with Omar.
The difference between Omar and Harris is that Harris didn’t let her brother play hide the pencil with her.
As far as anyone knows. And neither did Omar, again as far as anyone knows. The marriage existed only on paper.
No worries. Give them a pregnancy test in jail and/or check their disability status with VA or Social Security to find out. If it turns out they lied then charge them, prosecute them and incarcerate them for max sentence of making a false statement to Peace Officer, often a Class A misdemeanor. Max the rest of their charges as well as a deterrent, run them consecutively.
That doesn’t help the cop at the time of the arrest. He still has to take the warning seriously, in case it’s true.
Investigation into what? What is there to investigate?
But her statement doesn’t call for an investigation, so I don’t know where this post got that. She calls for an explanation, which is a very different thing. I can’t do an investigation, but I can give her a full and clear explanation: Your guest was told repeatedly to sit the f*** down and she refused, so she was arrested. That’s what happens. The other people who stood sat down when they were told to, so they were not arrested. This is the visitor’s gallery in Congress, not a baseball stadium. At a stadium she wouldn’t have been arrested, but she might have had things thrown at her. End of explanation.
” I am the victim of a cruel society almost imprisoned for a crime I did not commit, but I am here today to talk about my upcoming book….
Why? Not charging her allowed her to pretend she’d done nothing wrong and had been falsely arrested. Now she’s a martyr, and can exploit that further as we’ve just seen.
When are these leftists women going to learn they are not special and still need to obey the law?
You just made a great case for Sharia law.
Well since the Capital Police are part of the J6 Coup, I would guess this is a setup. I would investigate the CP in this matter.
This sounds like the purest case of Obstruction.
“uthorities said she used her vehicle to block ICE agents and ignored repeated instructions to move. The situation escalated, and agents ultimately removed her from the car after she refused to comply. Although she was detained by ICE agents, she was ultimately released without charges.”
Her claim was that she got lost and somehow ended up in the middle of this demonstration, and that because of her autism she didn’t understand the police instructions, especially since they were wearing masks so she couldn’t read their lips to help her understand them.
Of course the evidence shows that she was there on purpose, and deliberately blocking the ICE vehicles.
If you can find the video of her being extracted from the car she was using, you can seen a coffee cup in the console with a “resist fist” on it.
So she isn’t some innocent shrinking violet….
“she shouted that she was disabled and needed to get to a doctor’s appointment.”
That one’s straight off the idiot cue card of protesters incorporated.
“Why does she continue to place herself in situations where she could be injured?”
It’s the Lame Beggar con, a classic Muslim tradition.
There are people who deliberately walk in front of moving cars, same deal.
If you’re so disabled, B, STAY HOME!
1. Investigation open
2. We are gathering evidence. Show us your medical records for these reported injuries.
3. “That’s a violation of muh rights (to lie unchallenged)”
4. Investigation closed due to lack of evidence.
My bets are that ILhole set this up before the event.
The best part is the “injured shoulder” schtick. Why has Omar of the Thousand and One Turbans not been given the boot? That is perplexing.
The only people who can give her the boot are the voter in her district, and they only get the chance every two years.
Why is she still breathing?
Works for me. I cannot imagine the patience ICE shows. FAFO.