A Minneapolis woman is taking legal action against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging federal agents wrongly arrested her and refused to give her medical treatment while in custody.
Homeland Security agents on Jan. 13 detained Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen, while she was driving to a doctor’s appointment in south Minneapolis. Rahman filed a federal tort claim Thursday, the first step toward a lawsuit, saying Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE dragged her out of a car and denied her needed medical treatment while she was in custody.
“What happened to Aliya in January should have never taken place in the first place,” said Rahman’s attorney Jessica Gingold, senior counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center. “Aliya’s case is the natural end point of an increasingly militarized federal police force roaming our cities.”…