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U.S. citizen wrongfully detained in Minneapolis: Hear Mubashir's story
Minneapolis City CouncilSunday, December 21, 2025
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[0:00] I wasn't even outside for mere seconds
[0:01] before I seen
[0:02] a masked
[0:03] person running at me full speed.
[0:05] He tackled me. I told him, ‘I'm a U.S.
[0:07] citizen.’ He didn't seem to care.
[0:09] He dragged me outside through the snow
[0:11] while I was handcuffed,
[0:12] restrained, helpless.
[0:13] And he pushed me to the ground
[0:15] and he put me in a chokehold.
[0:16] And he said,
[0:16] ‘We're going to take you into Bishop
[0:18] Henry all the way in Bloomington.’
[0:19] I did my fingerprints
[0:20] and they finally let me go.
[0:22] They said ‘No,
[0:22] you have to walk in the snow.’
[0:23] Eventually, my parents came
[0:25] and picked me up.
[0:26] Our residents deserve better
[0:27] from the federal government.
[0:28] Random efforts
[0:29] in which individuals
[0:31] who are being stopped
[0:32] because they appear to be Latino
[0:34] or because they appear to be
[0:36] Somali is wrong.
[0:37] What happened to me
[0:38] was unjust, uncalled for.
[0:40] Were demanding accountability.
[0:41] immediate changes on how these operations
[0:44] are being carried out.
[1:35] We can't become accustomed to this.
[1:37] This cannot be normalized.
[1:39] he took me on the other side of Cedar,
[1:41] and they kept him there for 45 minutes.
[1:43] And I asked them.
[1:44] told me you didn't take me back to Cedar
[1:46] where you picked me up.
[1:47] I feel like I was getting assaulted.
[1:48] I was being kidnaped,
[1:49] there's a lot of other people in our city
[1:51] and around the country
[1:52] who've had very similar experiences.
[1:55] I simply team downstairs from upstairs